Cuba is bracing for an influx of American visitors in the years following the Obama administration's move to do away with the last meaningful restrictions on U.S. travel. After half a century of estrangement from a country just 90 miles south of Florida, Americans are eager for a taste of the communist island that in many ways has seemed stuck in time since revolutionaries kicked out a U.S.-backed government in 1959. The latest set of changes to U.S. rules, announced ahead of President Barack Obama's historic trip to Havana starting Sunday, will make it easier, quicker and cheaper for Americans to visit essentially on their own terms. But a formal ban on U.S. tourism remains in place. "The...
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