Postal traffic resumed with Cuba

- Washington has lifted Tuesday more restrictions on trade with Cuba. It's about easing relations regarding financial transactions and travel. For example, Cubans will be able to open bank accounts in the US. Also, more Americans visit Cuba and will resume postal traffic.

After the communist coup of Fidel Castro in 1959, the country focused on the Soviet Union. In 1961 US broke therefore the relationship. Early sixties Washington imposed a strict trade embargo against Cuba.

US President Barack Obama takes 21 and 22 March a visit to Cuba. He is the first US president to do that since Calvin Coolidge in early 1928. Obama's visit marks the end of the policy that Washington wanted to isolate the communist island altogether.

Since 2014 relations between the two countries are restored. Last year, officially reopened the Cuban embassy in Washington and the US embassy in Havana. Fidel Castro's brother Raul dominated since 2006 on the island.