HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba has suspended postal deliveries to the United States, its mail firm said yesterday, in a step backward for ties between neighboring countries that have made cautious progress in repairing a Cold War-era rift.
Mail services across the 90 miles (144 km) of sea that separates the Caribbean island from the coast of Florida, where more than 1 million people of Cuban origin live, were suspended in 1963 following Cuba’s communist revolution.
Talks between the government of U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuba’s communist leadership led to the
resumption of deliveries via third countries such as Mexico and Canada in 2009. Direct deliveries were under discussion.
