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| Subject: About time: Cuba connects with the outside world as travel rules for its citizens are eased Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:46 pm | |
| The Cuban architect Felix Borges, who last left the island in 1989 to visit Angola, is among a wave of prospective tourists seeking to go abroad as the Cuban President, Raul Castro, begins easing travel rules.
As of Monday, Mr Borges and other Cuban citizens no longer needed exit visas or invitations from a resident of a foreign country in order to travel, a rule that kept many from leaving the island for decades. The policy shift comes as Mr Castro takes more steps to open up the economy as part of the biggest overhaul since the 1959 revolution led by his brother Fidel.
''They'll have normal rules where people can leave and come back,'' said Philip Peters, a Cuba analyst at the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Virginia. ''People can go abroad to get a degree and come back, or work and send money back. It's going to have an economic benefit because it will connect people to the outside world.''
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/cuba-connects-with-the-outside-world-as-travel-rules-for-its-citizens-are-eased-20130115-2criu.html#ixzz2I6Bw7hmN
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