AQ Interview: Robert Muse on U.S. Ferry Service to Cuba
AQ Interview: Robert Muse on U.S. Ferry Service to Cuba
By
Justin Rohrlich
Robert Muse says the importance of re-establishing U.S.-Cuba ferry service goes far beyond a more convenient way to traverse the Florida Straits.
The last ferry between Cuba and the United States left Havana for Key West at 3pm on October 31, 1960. Operated by the West India Fruit and Steamship Company of West Palm Beach, the SS Havana City was just one of many commercial ferries bringing American travelers (and their cars) to Cuba. The U.S. trade embargo, the first pieces of which had been put in place by President John F. Kennedy less than two weeks earlier, would freeze the routes for the next...
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