--- description: The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture is leading a delegation of U.S. government officials to Havana in the first visit to Cuba since 1961. title: See What Cuba Looked Like When USDA Officials Last Visited image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5869f0350de10b8/698870d03c1639782545aadb/cuba-us-relations-photos-05.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Cuba](/tag/cuba/) ## Cuba Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See What Cuba Looked Like When U.S. Agriculture Officials Last Visited by [TIME Photo](/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 12, 2015 10:20 PM CUT  Young Cubans perform a dance during the International Workers' Day celebrations in the Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana on May 1, 1961. Young Cubans perform a dance during the International Workers' Day celebrations in the Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana on May 1, 1961.Prensa Latina/AP by [TIME Photo](/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 12, 2015 10:20 PM CUT  A sign on the Miami waterfront invites Americans to visit Cuba in 1960. Graf/Getty Images  Baseball players in action during the first baseball championship in Havana in 1960. Liborio Noval/Prensa Latina/AP  Cubans watch the May Day parade at the Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana on May 1, 1960. Prensa Latina—AP  Cuban President Fidel Castro, right, delivers the property title of a land to a peasant following agrarian reform in Cuba in 1960. Prensa Latina/AP  Women work at the Mariana Grajales brigade in Sierra Maestra, Cuba on July 26, 1960. Prensa Latina/AP  A boy teaches a man to write during a literacy campaign in Cuba in 1961. Prensa Latina/AP  Young Cubans perform a dance during the International Workers' Day celebrations in the Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana on May 1, 1961. Prensa Latina/AP  People attend a meeting at the National Institute for Agrarian Reform in Havana in January 1961. Freddy Morales—Prensa Latina/AP  Cubans queue outside the U.S. embassy in hopes of obtaining visas after President Fidel Castro ordered the embassy to reduce its staff in Havana on Jan. 3, 1961\. After the diplomatic break in 1961, Washington was without a presence in Cuba until 1977. AP  Tanks pass in a military parade on the second anniversary of the Cuban Revolution at Plaza Marti in Havana in January 1961. Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4110815/cuba-usda-us-visit-photos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4110815/cuba-usda-us-visit-photos/"},"headline":"See What Cuba Looked Like When U.S. Agriculture Officials Last Visited","datePublished":"2015-11-12T22:20:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:58.246Z","description":"The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture is leading a delegation of U.S. government officials to Havana in the first visit to Cuba since 1961.","url":"https://time.com/4110815/cuba-usda-us-visit-photos/","keywords":["Cuba","photography","Cuba topic","us","USDA","Havana","1961"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5869f0350de10b8/698870d03c1639782545aadb/cuba-us-relations-photos-05.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Photo","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-photo/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5869f0350de10b8/698870d03c1639782545aadb/cuba-us-relations-photos-05.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Cuba May Day Celebration","caption":"Cuba May Day Celebration","creditText":"Prensa Latina/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/cuba/","name":"Cuba"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4110815/cuba-usda-us-visit-photos/","name":"See What Cuba Looked Like When U.S. Agriculture Officials Last Visited"}}]}] ```