[fintstone]

I suspect that most of the predictions here will not come to pass any time soon. The President's ability to make these changes is very small. Baseball players have not been kept out of the US. Cuba has kept it's people imprisoned. The trade embargo (Federal law) cannot be lifted by the President (unless he breaks the law again). Folks here will be able to send a bit more money to their family there and the President can appoint an Ambassador. Folks that are allowed to travel there will be able to bring back $400 in goods ($100 in tobacco and alcohol). They will still be subject to being imprisoned for minor mistakes much as the fellow who was just released. All Cuban political prisoners were not released here (Obama 2.0) which were the requirement for relations with the US (Obama 1.0)...so the people there still get the shaft...in fact, there were really no concessions...so really; nothing has really changed between the two countries, yet.

I agree with the earlier posters that noted that European/Canadian vacationers/money have not changed Cuba...why would a few more Americans? The only thing those monies have done is prop up a brutal dictator for decades, rendering US sanctions ineffective and allowing the repression of the Cuban people. Sanctions were never intended to damage our friends, the Cubans (in fact, the opposite)...just their dictator and his Soviet (Russian) masters.