article_snippet.sent: U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro will have a substantive 'discussion' tomorrow at a regional summit the two men are attending this weekend in Panama, White House said Friday.
article_snippet.sent: Jorge Leganoa, deputy director of Cuba's National Information Agency, this morning made the disclosure to the Associated Press, and a White House official later told reporters traveling with White House, 'I can confirm that Obama spoke with Cuban President Raul Castro on Wednesday, before Obama departed Washington.'
article_snippet.sent: Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro spoke on the phone Wednesday ahead of an anticipated 'interaction' at the conference .
article_snippet.sent: a White House official today told reporters traveling with White House: 'I can confirm that Obama spoke with Cuban President Raul Castro on Wednesday, before Obama departed Washington' Apart from a couple of brief, informal encounters, including a 2013 handshake between Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro at South African leader Nelson Mandela's funeral, the leaders of the United States and Cuba have not had any significant meetings since Cuba's 1959 revolution .
article_snippet.sent: The decades-long detente between the United States and Cuba appeared to be official over on Friday as the United States' Obama and CubaCuban President Raul Castro prepared to share the same stage  in an encounter rich with symbolism as the United States and Cuba countries .
article_snippet.sent: Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro have separate agendas for most of the day, and the White House had said a private meeting was not on the books.
article_snippet.sent: But Obama and Castro were Obama and Castro scheduled to attend the start of the Summit of the along with .
article_snippet.sent: Apart from a couple of brief, informal encounters, including a 2013 handshake between Obama and Castro at South African leader Nelson Mandela's funeral, the . leaders of the United States and Cuba have not had any . significant meetings since Cuban President Raul Castro's older brother Fidel toppled U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista in a 1959 .
article_snippet.sent: Obama and Castro have separate agendas for most of the day, and the White House had said a private meeting was not on the books.
article_snippet.sent: But Obama and Castro were Obama and Castro scheduled to attend the start of the summit along with other regional leaders on Friday evening and the White House
article_snippet.sent: said Obama and Castro could have an unscripted conversation there.