"Cubans embrace new travel privileges; Feared exodus hasn’t happened" by Peter Orsi | Associated Press, January 19, 2014
HAVANA — Travel reform that went into effect a year ago, when the government scrapped an exit visa requirement that for five decades had made it difficult for most islanders to go abroad.
The much-hated measure was long justified as necessary to prevent brain drain as scientists, doctors, athletes, and other skilled citizens were lured away from the Communist-run nation by the promise of capitalist riches.
A year into the new law, Cubans are traveling in record numbers. Some have not returned, but there’s no sign of the mass exodus that some feared. Dissidents are coming and going and raising their international profiles — and money — but there has been little impact on their limited ability to effect political change back home….
I'd say that is highly questionable, but who cares? It's the same here in AmeriKa.
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Also see: Capitalism Has Failed in Cuba
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