First
cruise from a
U.S. port to
Cuba in
decades leaves Miami
Passengers set sail on Sunday
from Miami on an historic
cruise to Cuba, one that took
decades of waiting.
Carnival Corp.'s 704-passenger Adonia left
port at 4:24 p.m., bound for Havana. Carnival's
Cuba cruises, operating under its Fathom brand, will visit the ports of Havana, Cienfuegos and Santiago de
Cuba on the seven-day outing.
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The
cruise comes after
Cuba loosened its policy banning Cuban-born people
from arriving to the country by sea, a rule that threatened to stop the cruises
from happening. Restarting the cruises was an important element of a bid by President Barack Obama's administration's to increase tourism to
Cuba after the Dec. 17, 2014, decision to restore diplomatic relations and move toward **rmalization.
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