April 2-5, 1989. Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament), pays an official friendly visit to the Republic of Cuba. He is seen here with Fidel Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Chairman of the State Council and the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, and Raul Castro, Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, at the airport before leaving Cuba.