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Judi Lynn

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Fri Jan 19, 2018, 12:08 AM Jan 2018

Almost A Million Cubans Traveled Abroad In The Last Five Years

Almost A Million Cubans Traveled Abroad In The Last Five Years

Havana, Jan 17 (Prensa Latina) At least 819,749 Cubans living in the country traveled abroad for personal reasons in the last five years, since the update of the migration legislation in January 2013, official data reveal today.

Although most of them left Cuba for the first time, the figures show that the nationals made a total of 2,656,111 trips abroad, as some of them repeated, according to the statistics to which Prensa Latina had access.

In the same period, Cubans living abroad made 2,072,093 trips to their nation of origin.

For the authorities of the island there is a sustained increase in the travel of both those who live inside and those who are settled outside.

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