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...taken a good 40 years, but last June, Ben and his wife Susan, 63, a nurse practitioner, spent eight days traveling around Havana and neighboring provinces, exploring the health-care and educational systems, visiting a pediatric hospital, a health-care clinic and a school for health professionals...
...Guevara, and we have a joint ceremony with Cuban veterans on Nov. 11," says Long, a telecommunications engineer in San Francisco who feels the U.S. should end its "economic blockade" against the country. Manhattan's 92nd Street Y takes largely Jewish-American travelers on excursions to Jewish Havana, and Global Exchange in San Francisco runs educational, language and volunteer programs. Trips include a look at the Cuban health-care system and a walk in Che Guevara's footsteps...
...over age 55, and many remember when you could go to Cuba easily," says Victoria McCormack, senior program manager at Elderhostel. "Now they want to see what the society is like, how the culture has matured since America closed its doors to Cuba." Participants study at the University of Havana and explore the city and surrounding areas...
...Squireses spent their eight days in Cuba with Cross-Cultural Solutions, an educational and experiential travel organization based in New Rochelle, N.Y. CCS's Insight Programs offer behind-the-scenes, personalized explorations and feature access to places tourists usually don't see--a tour of Old Havana with a member of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, say, or dinner in a Cuban home. Since May, founder Steve Rosenthal, who says his fully licensed company is apolitical, has sent about 200 people, 60% of whom are over 55. "We've had such a long and interesting history with...
...outside the small house, the boy's case wound its way through the courts. Politicians took sides, with anti-Castro Republicans arguing for asylum, and Democrats asking for the letter of the law, which seemed to indicate that a father's will should prevail. As the situation in Little Havana grew more tense, Attorney General Janet Reno sought to get Elian to a neutral site. The Miami relatives were unwilling to give him up. At 4 a.m. on April 22, Reno was in phone negotiations with the family, having already put in motion a raid to seize Elian...