Deep freeze in US-Cuba relations could be thawing
** we'll see (what's the next faux roadblock?)
Two days of talks between U.S. and Cuban officials on resuming direct mail to Cuba - a service that has been cut off for five decades - began Tuesday in Washington, and, perhaps more significantly, sources said that U.S. and Cuban officials plan to resume migration talks in July.
Migration between the long-hostile countries has come under closer scrutiny since Havana eased its restrictions on travel abroad on Jan. 14, raising the prospects that many more Cubans will leave the island and head to the United States, legally or illegally. Cubans are no longer required to obtain an exit visa or a mandatory invitation letter from a foreign host to leave the island.
But because Cubans still need an entry visa to visit the United States, some analysts say migratory patterns could change as Cubans travel to countries that don't require visas and then use them as a hopping-off point to enter the United States.
The migration talks will start July 17 in Washington between State Department and Cuban Foreign Ministry officials, knowledgeable sources told El Nuevo Herald on Tuesday.
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