Long Beach travel agency hopes Congress makes Cuba access easier

[Judi Lynn]

Long Beach travel agency hopes Congress makes Cuba access easier
Cautious optimism grows that island embargo will end.
By Kristopher Hanson, Staff Writer
Posted: 06/06/2010 07:30:03 PM PDT

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5/28/10 - Michael Zuccato, general manager
of the firm Cuba Travel Services Inc., which
specializing in travel to Communist Cuba. It
has seen a surge in business since the White
House eased travel restrictions in 2009.
(Brittany Murray / Press Telegram)
LONG BEACH -- More than five decades have passed since Fidel Castro and his army of revolutionaries strode triumphantly into Havana, Cuba, improbably toppling a dictatorship lording over a nation that for decades had been the top foreign destination of American tourists.

And yYet within months, everything began to unravel between the former allies.

By 1960, the nations had entered a tumultuous three-year period which that included a failed U.S.-backed invasion atin the Bay of Pigs and a standoff involving the Soviet Union that very nearly ended in nuclear war.

By mid-1962, American tourism to Cuba was officially over -- the favorite playground of sun-seeking Yankees off-limits to all but perhaps a few CIA spooks.

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[flamingdem]

1. Cuba travel agencies are making a lot of money right now

Other travel agencies are drooling.. My guess is that those business interests along with oil and agriculture interests will eventually buy the necessary votes in congress to upend travel restrictions.