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Our tropical terrorist tourist trap: as Fidel and his critics creak toward irrelevance, the push for normalized U.S.--Cuban relations grows stronger.

The American Prospect

| October 07, 2002 | Doder, Dusko | COPYRIGHT 2002 The American Prospect, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

THESE DAYS, IT CAN BE HARD TO TELL THAT THE United States still maintains its 40-year trade and travel embargo on Cuba. Jimmy Carter and Ralph Nader recently touched down on Fidel Castro's communist island in the Caribbean, just 90 miles from Florida's coast. North Dakota's Republican governor John Hoeven went there to drum up farm business for his state. And even Tampa, Fla.'s Democratic Mayor Dick Greco made a furtive trip to Cuba with 15 local business leaders (they caught hell when Florida's Cuban-American community found out).

In all, 176,000 Americans visited Cuba in the last year. Many were tourists: New Hampshire businessman Arnold Goldstein simply wanted ...

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