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Judi Lynn

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Sun May 1, 2016, 11:21 PM May 2016

1st cruise from a US port in decades leaves Miami for Cuba

1st cruise from a US port in decades leaves Miami for Cuba
May 1, 9:01 PM EDT

MIAMI (AP) -- Passengers set sail Sunday from Miami on an historic cruise to Cuba, the first in decades to depart from a U.S. seaport for the communist island nation.

Carnival Corp.'s 704-passenger Adonia left port at 4:24 p.m., bound for Havana. Carnival's Cuba cruises, operating under its Fathom brand, will also visit the ports of Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba on the seven-day outing. Several Cuba-born passengers, among hundreds of others, were aboard, it said.

The cruise comes after Cuba loosened its policy banning Cuban-born people from arriving to the country by sea, a rule that threatened to stop the cruises from happening.

. . .

The Cuban government says the shift in policy removes prohibitions enacted when Cuban exiles were launching attacks by sea after the first Cuban revolution.

More:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CUBA_CRUISES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-05-01-21-01-57

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141434180

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