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ON the eve of the visit of United States President Barack Obama, Jamaicans are today marking the 33rd anniversary of the first visit to the island by a sitting US president, Ronald Reagan, who came in contrasting circumstances on April 7, 1982. While Reagan brought a strong anti-Communist message and lashed Marxist Cuba as the "only Caribbean nation which has totally enveloped itself in Marxism, a philosophy alien to this hemisphere", Obama comes against the backdrop of negotiations to lift the punishing embargo against Cuba.
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