article_snippet: Cuba has a very authentic atmosphere which you see nowhere else in the world,' Gay Ben Aharon of Israel said while walking through Revolution Square. '
article_snippet: Outsiders may romanticize the 'time-capsule' nation, but many on Cuba are ready for change.
article_snippet: For many Cubans living in dilapidated, multigeneration tenements, change could be good.
article_snippet: It's unlikely Cuba will see major changes overnight.
article_snippet: Talks to take the first steps toward normalized relations are just beginning and there is stiff opposition in the US Congress to lifting the 53-year-old embargo that bars most trade with and travel to Cuba.
article_snippet: However, Cuba is hardly ready for a Yankee invasion.
article_snippet: Carmenate, the university student and tour guide, dismisses concerns that Cuba will lose Cuba character.
article_snippet: Cubans, Rodriguez said, eagerly await change but won't allow Cubans country to become the capitalist playground
article_snippet: Thomas Mieszkowski, a 28-year-old tourist from Leeds, England, however, was among the visitors taking in the experience of seeing Cuba now — before, Rodriguez said, it risks becoming 'another outpost of Florida.'
article_snippet: Some non-US visitors to Cuba are afraid that the US opening up to the island risks the US becoming 'another outpost of FloridaFlorida.'
article_snippet: Outsiders may romanticize the 'time-capsule' nation, but many on Cuba are ready for change .