Ahead of Havana Trip, Obama Films Skit With Cuban Comedian

The White House has released a video of President Barack Obama joking with Cuba's most famous comedian, ahead of the U.S. leader's historic trip to the island on Sunday. In the video, humorist Luis Silva plays the elderly character Panfilo, who calls Washington looking for a weather forecast for Tuesday's baseball game between the Cuban national team and the American professional Tampa Bay Rays team. But instead of getting a meteorologist, he ends up reaching the U.S....

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