This whitehouse.gov link.
Granma online, English edition, is a few days behind so we cannot yet see official commentary on the policy change there.
UPDATE: DC pundits speculate, always putting their particular frame around things beyond things; here and here.
Comments from Rushbo listeners are welcome. What does the Great Rushbo have to say - please, in a nutshell, not Rushbo style.
UPDATE: Strib coverage, which is speculation-free as to political sidebands.
FURTHER UPDATE: A reader emailed noting reports of a Papal role in normalization efforts per U.S. - Cuba relations; something notably absent from the agendas of the two Popes preceding Francis. Francis has been good for the Vatican as a relevant twenty-first century factor.
E.g., this report.
FURTHER: This Strib carry of a Bloomberg op-ed.
And, wow.
Done without Dennis Rodman doing any traveling.