Cuban's can't travel? right?

[R_P_A_S]

I'm just wondering. an avg. Cuban family can't travel to like Mexico or France for vacation right? they aren't allowed to? under what law or whats the reason for this? anyone know? why People can't leave the Island as a tourist?

[Janus]

I'm pretty sure that they can but they have to get a visa first. They can't just get in a raft and sail away.

[R_P_A_S]

Originally posted by [email protected] 08, 2006 10:18 pm
I'm pretty sure that they can but they have to get a visa first. They can't just get in a raft and sail away.
im just trying to find out if is true or not. i mean.. i have no idea

[Tekun]

According to the Miami Herald, "Unlike most countries, Cuba requires its citizens to obtain exit permits when leaving the country; there are 533 Cubans with valid U.S. visas not allowed to leave".

Apparently they can travel
The gusanos down in Miami are the one's spreading these myths

source: wikipedia and the Miami Herald

[OneBrickOneVoice]

My dad's girlfiend is cuban, when she got married to her ex-husband they gave her a visa to come and go as she wishes, but apparently that's rare, and certain professions like Doctor do not allow you to leave.

[Severian]

I've met a number of Cubans visiting the U.S; getting a visa from the U.S. is often a larger problem. The Latin American Studies Association recently held its academic conference in Canada because it couldn't get U.S. visas for its invited Cuban guests.

Yes, exit permits are required. But they don't generally try to keep everyone from leaving or anything.

Except that there's a policy that doctors and so forth can't leave the country shortly after getting their free education....you might ask how many of those 533 people are in that category.

[bezdomni]

I was in France about a year ago and one of the flights on the arrivals section was from Havana.

I'd imagine they can travel.

[Red October]

why do they restrict travel like that?

[Karl Marx's Camel]

I've heard it is quite possible;

Some say it is relatively easy to get a "permit", others have to drive around for quite some time, it can cost some money especially if the administrators judge the guideline's strictly, which they sometimes do to be on the safe side; in either case, for regular people it works out fine in the end.

Almost all Cubans can travel where they want in the world, but only some with sensitive jobs in the state and criminals can't go.

But if I recall correctly a Cuban has to return by a certain date? I remember reading an article where I believe it said a Cuban has to return before it has passed either two or three weeks.


Except that there's a policy that doctors and so forth can't leave the country shortly after getting their free education....
Two years.. Isn't it?

[Xiao Banfa]

NWOG is sounding less and less like an "anticommunist provacateur".

I love him tenderly.

[Guerrilla22]

I met numerous Cubans when I was in Central America, they were there for vacation.

[matiasm]

recently it is much harder to get a visa from any latin american coutry to Australia. Proof is my grandmother and uncle werent allowed a holiday VISA into Australia by the Australian immigrational department. Fuck knows why they were rejected. I repeatily threathen the office from a payphone....

Under the security threats that Cuba face it is logical to have tough VISA restrictions, laws and rules. But its not all how it is made out to be, Cubans can travel in and out of Cuba, my Cuban friend does, she is in australia now and has returned to Cuba several times.

[Marsella]

I just read a speech where Castro reported that around 100,000 'American-Cubans' visit their families every year.

http://www.granma.cu/documento/ingles03/016.html

BTW its a really good speech, read it.

[R_P_A_S]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10, 2006 02:35 pm
I just read a speech where Castro reported that around 100,000 'American-Cubans' visit their families every year.

http://www.granma.cu/documento/ingles03/016.html

BTW its a really good speech, read it.
huh? I thought if you came back to cuba you couldn't leave?

[Severian]

Where did you get that idea? Anyway, it's wrong. People in the U.S. visit their families in Cuba all the time.

In 2004, the Bush administration imposed new rules - limiting family visits to one every three years. BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3690697.stm)

[An archist]

I know a Cuban woman, she was only allowed to leave Cuba because she had a relationship (still does) with my stepbrother.