Yahoo Finance Here’s What It’s Like to Visit Cuba After the Death of Fidel Castro
After easing restrictions on U.S. visitors earlier this year for the first time in decades, Cuba is newly at the top of many travelers’ must-see lists.
Several U.S-based. airlines now provide service to the island — JetBlue introduced the first direct flight (Ft. Lauderdale to Santa Clara) in September, and now offers direct routes from New York’s JFK Airport to Havana, with other major airlines following suit. President Obama visited in March, and many celebrities including Jay Z, Beyonce and Madonna have made the trip. Rihanna even shot a Vanity Fair cover story in Havana in 2015.
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PEOPLE en Español’s Armando Correa, who was born in Cuba, returned to the country following the death of former leader Fidel Castro in November, and poignantly recounts his experience in an online feature for the magazine.
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He writes: “In the years since I left the island in 1991, I went back only a handful of times, mostly for work. This year alone, I went three times. First, to participate in a historic meeting of U.S. publishers and editors in Havana, later to shoot the September cover story for People en Español and now after Fidel’s death. In all my previous trips, I endured the same hassle Cubans traveling from the U.S. have had to endure for decades: high agency and charter flight prices, long lines at Miami International Airport and various control points before reaching the airline counters. This trip was different, so much so that it seemed I was flying domestic: my carry-on was not weighed, the flight was on time and the round-trip fare for this route was under $200.”
Read the full story, Cuba without Fidel, on peopleenespanol.com
