Cuban Tourism in the Age of Détente

On Wednesday morning, Tom Popper was driving to work at InsightCuba, the travel organization that he runs out of New Rochelle, New York, when he heard a familiar name on the radio. Alan Gross, the American contractor for U.S.A.I.D. who had been imprisoned in Cuba for five years, had been released and was on a flight home. "I kind of forgot I was in the car," Popper said. "All of a sudden, I saw myself veering off to the shoulder." Popper, who is forty-seven years old, makes his living helping Am...