Professor I Nelson Rose looks at the re-emergence of casino gambling in the Caribbean nation.
DIPLOMATIC relations have been restored and the US embassy in Havana and the Cuban embassy in Washington, DC, are being reopened. Travel restrictions have been eased, though Americans without relatives in Cuba still have to be part of educational or similar programmes to visit the island nation.
But President Obama has done as much as he can on his own. It may be difficult for Americans to travel to North Korea or Iran, but Cuba is the only country in the world where American tourists and businesses bars are barred not by a declaration from the US State Department, but by an act of Congress. So Cuba will remain off-limits until Congress passes another act.
