Cuba eases access

Cuba will make it easier for its US-based citizens to travel to the island, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said yesterday, in a gesture to win support from Cuban Americans during a diplomatic crisis over allegations of mysterious health attacks.’’ The US government closes, and Cuba opens,’’ Rodriguez told a meeting of pro-Havana Cuban Americans in Washington. He said Cuban citizens in the United States would no longer need to have a special review of their Cuban passports to rehabilitate them before travelling to the island. That procedure had become more difficult due to staff shortages at the Cuban embassy after the US government expelled 15 Cuban diplomats this month during a dispute over mystery ‘‘attacks’’ on US personnel.