Number of Cuban travelers rises with looser rules

Posted on Monday, 10.28.13

Number of Cuban travelers rises with looser rules
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HAVANA -- Cuban officials say travel abroad has risen 35 percent since
the island's government loosened restrictions this year.

Col. Lamberto Fraga, an official in the immigration directorate of the
Interior Ministry, says Cubans took 226,877 trips to other countries
between Jan. 1 and Oct. 23. In mid-January the government eliminated a
widely disliked requirement for an exit permit.

Fraga doesn't say how many trips were made off the island the previous
year. He also doesn't provide the total number of people traveling this
year — only the number of trips. He does say that 24,000 Cubans made at
least two journeys this year.

He says the primary destination for travelers was the United States,
followed by Mexico and Spain.

Fraga made his comments Monday.

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