Comments on Cuba

John Horn’s cover story on tourism in Cuba (“The Other Caribbean,” June 24) was remarkably fair and free of cold-war mentality. Cuba’s pristine beaches and paucity of Coca-Cola signs, and the like, sound inviting.

Alas, though Cuba welcomes tourists from the United States, our government prohibits ordinary tourists from visiting there. I thought it was Communist countries that restricted the travel of their citizens to capitalist countries to prevent them from learning what capitalism is really like. It seems we need our own glasnost here in the U.S.A.

CLIFFORD OLIN

Alhambra