The Cuban government announced Tuesday it will eliminate a half-century-old restriction that requires citizens to get an exit visa to leave the country. The decree that takes effect Jan. 14 will eliminate a much-loathed bureaucratic procedure that has kept many Cubans from travelling or moving abroad. […] Under the new measure announced in the Communist Party daily Granma, islanders will only have to show their passport and a visa from the country they are travelling to.
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