Carlos Batista
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/ 2 April 2008

Cuba ends ‘tourism apartheid’

Cubans for the first time can check into the island’s swank tourist hotels that until now had been exclusively reserved for foreigners, as President Raul Castro continues to soften a half-century of communist restrictions. Citizens here also have access for the first time to rental cars, which until midnight on Sunday had been available only to foreign customers.