Despite increasing hardships for locals, the Caribbean's most impressive island offers one of the world's great travel experiences, from its music and culture to Havana and its other cities, as well as beaches and nature.
Havana´s gracious Vedado district
Ivan2010 Though mostly shabby and decrepit except for its UNESCO World Heritage colonial core, Habana Vieja, being restored for the tourism trade with the help of the Spanish government, the European Union, and other international donors, the capital of Cuba is truly one of the more remarkable cities in all the world, as millions of new visitors have been discovering each year since the régime started increasingly opening up the island to visitors in the years following the 1991 collapse of…
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You're right, Anil, journalists have always been exempt from restrictions on travel to Cuba, but if you read the Treasury Dep't. OFAC regulations on their Web site, it has to be a full-time journalist:
"...journalism by journalists regularly employed in that capacity by a news reporting organization, including supporting broadcast or technical personnel..."
Here are the current U.S. guidelines for travel to Cuba; this document will likely change in the next several weeks as these new changes are implemented.
Ed: Just read about it in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12197939
So encouraging. I think allowing Universities is a good step. Maybe alums ? Who will howl ? Whomever has much to lose ?
Obama announces loosening of restrictions on travel to Cuba.http://yhoo.it/eogiy0 Who will benefit? Who will howl?
Cuban art
Cuban music
"Cubanisms"
Cuban humor