Word: cuba
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Visiting researchers Rodríguez, Maestre Mesa and Díaz were invited to Harvard through the Rockefeller Center’s Cuban Visiting Scholar Program, which was started 10 years ago in the hopes of increasing communication and improving relations between Cuba and the United States...
State Department spokesman Lou J. Fintor said that the U.S. government’s “policy is to encourage people-to-people exchanges in Cuba and to advance the prospect of democratic transition...
After Sept. 11, the U.S. government imposed new restrictions on travel to and from a number of countries in efforts to tighten security. Cuba is currently on the State Department’s list of countries that sponsor terrorism...
...process of getting a visa averages about 30 days for people coming from countries that the United States has normal relations with, Emerson said. But he noted that visas from some countries, like Cuba, take longer, but typically not more than a few months...
Maestre Mesa said he hopes that academic visits between Cuba and the United States will continue to grow in the future—and sees his visit as a portent of positive relations in the future...