Cuba Travel

After 50 Years, Cubans Hope To Travel Freely

AP | PAUL HAVEN | Posted 05.02.2012

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HAVANA — After controlling the comings and goings of its people for five decades, communist Cuba appears on the verge of a momentous decision to...

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PHOTOS: Our Girl In Havana, Cuba

Tyler Wetherall | Posted 04.06.2012

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I arrive to the soundtrack of Charlie Parker's jazz crackling out of a rigged up car stereo punctuated by the syncopated shake, rattle and roll of a beat up old Chevrolet hurtling along beside my taxi.

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For Cubans, Nassau Is a Magical City

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.12.2012

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They leave Cuba showing a national ID and land on the island of New Providence presenting their other identity as members of the European Union. The transformation occurs in the air, in the miles that separate the Antilles from the Bahamas.

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An American Girl in Cuba

Lili Boyle | Posted 04.09.2012

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Wherever we went, the highs and lows of Cuban society were clearly illustrated; we saw the beauty, the poverty, the arts, the decay, the hospitality and the biases.

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How Obama Can Truly Open Cuba To Travelers

John McAuliff | Posted 03.25.2012

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The hard liners' argument that travel provides economic support for Cuba's "evil regime" is disingenuous.

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Eighteen Times the Castro Regime Has Said No... Tomorrow Will They Let Me Travel?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.21.2012

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The suitcase keeps looking at me. "When will we travel?" I imagine its worn-out wheels asking me. And I can only answer that perhaps this Friday in a parliament -- without real power -- some decree will return to me a right I should have always enjoyed.

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WATCH: Inside Hemingway's Cuba Home

Posted 12.22.2011

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'The Today Show' brought Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter, Mariel, to Cuba to see her grandfather's home, now a popular tourist attraction. Hemingw...

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Cuba, The Stranger On Our Doorstep

Melissa Biggs Bradley | Posted 02.12.2012

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In Cuba, you will see billboards that read "Mas Revolucion, Mejor Socialism" that feature images of Che Guevara on just about every street corner.

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10 Fascinating Forbidding Places

ShermansTravel | Posted 11.29.2011

The same impulse that drew 16th-century explorers into uncharted oceans may compel today's intrepid travelers to ignore State Department travel warnings.

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Destin-Nation Cuba: Volunteering to Make Friends of Enemies (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Elizabeth Brady | Posted 09.22.2011

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It is a persistent misconception that Cuba's rigid socialist government already provides a solid amount of social aid to its citizens, and travel to t...

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Americans Arrive In Cuba To Open Arms

Posted 10.17.2011

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The first group of American tourists traveling legally to Cuba under newly relaxed restrictions has been welcomed with open arms, says the organizer o...

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Anthony Bourdain Talks Travel and His Latest 'No Reservations' Season (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Rebecca Dolan | Posted 09.20.2011

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The premiere episode of the latest season of "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations" finds Tony in Cuba, land of cigars, classic cars and Castro, trying t...

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The Long Distance Run-Around

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 09.20.2011

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To say that one state controls US policy towards Cuba is in fact silly and insane. Its not one state, its worse.

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Cuba Tourism: U.S. Approves 8 New Airports For Flights To Cuba

AP | By ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Eight new airports have been given permission to schedule charter flights to and from Cuba. Customs and Border Protection officials s...

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Freedom to Travel to Cuba: What Does It Mean for American Democracy?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

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My guest post today is from Ernesto Morales Licea, until recently one of my fellow bloggers on the Island. Ernesto is a journalist who was fired from ...

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President Opens Door for Travel to Cuba

John McAuliff | Posted 05.25.2011

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The White House announcement of reforms in policy affecting purposeful travel to Cuba is an important step forward. The devil, as always, is in the details.

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Cuba Not Happy With Obama's New Travel Edict

AP | PAUL HAVEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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HAVANA — Cuba said Sunday that the Obama Administration's decision to lift some travel restrictions on students, academics and religious groups ...

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Obama To Change Cuban Travel Restrictions

AP | By BRENDAN FARRINGTON | Posted 09.20.2011

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- President Barack Obama plans to loosen Cuban travel policy to allow students and church groups to go to the communist country, th...

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Unavoidable Choices on Cuba for the White House and Congress

John McAuliff | Posted 05.25.2011

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We are at a time of testing. Are the institutions of government in the U.S. finally able to overcome well-funded special interest exile politics to chart a rational course with Cuba?

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U.S. Foreign Policy: Common Sense Takes a Holiday

Sarah Stephens | Posted 05.25.2011

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Our policy under Obama boils down to this: engagement is for the North Koreans (the guys with nuclear weapons), but we'll continue to isolate America from Cuba (whose army, the CIA says, lacks replacement parts and sufficient fuel).

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Travel To Cuba On The Rise Among Cuban Americans

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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HAVANA (Reuters) - The number of Cuban Americans visiting Cuba is up 20 percent so far this year and will likely keep rising as Washington eases trave...

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Obama Lifting Cuba Travel Restrictions

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — In a measured break with a half-century of U.S. policy toward communist Cuba, the Obama administration lifted restrictions Monday o...

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Obama To Lift Some Curbs On Travel To Cuba

Wall Street Journal | LAURA MECKLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama plans to lift longstanding U.S. restrictions on Cuba, a senior administration official said, allowing Cuban-Americans to visit ...

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Cuba Travel Ban To Be Lifted: US Senators

Los Angeles Times | William E. Gibson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reporting from Washington -- A bipartisan group of senators predicted Tuesday that Congress was ready to pass legislation to allow all Americans to tr...

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