Former Mtn. Home resident with ties to Cuba looks at their future

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     With the recent death of Cuba’s former President Fidel Castro and a new administration entering the White House, many people are wondering what the future holds for Cuba. Since December of 2014, when Cuba’s current President and President Obama began normalizing relations between the two countries a great deal has happened including the reopening of the U. S. Embassy in Havana and the first scheduled commercial flight between the United States and Cuba on Monday. Former Mountain Home resident Vivian Verble, whose business, Airline Brokers Company, has been arranging travel between the two countries. A frequent visitor to Cuba, she offers this reaction from the Cubans she has seen and met to this new relationship between governments.


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     She says individual and private enterprises now exist in Cuba.


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     Verble, who has met both Fidel and Raul Castro through her business, says she has great relations with the government and the Cuban people.


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     Verble believes what the future holds for Cuba, now that Fidel Castro is dead, depends on the U. S.


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     Cuba is a dictatorship and a violator of human rights, says Verble, who describes the relationship between them and the U.S. as a chess game.


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     Currently, travel to Cuba is limited to close relatives to someone living in Cuba, journalists, full-time professional research, educational activities, humanitarian projects, and religious organizations as well as People-toPeople exchanges.






   

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