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Leader of the Ladies in White Berta Soler shows her new passport in Havana. Cubans are now able to leave the country with just a passport and no need for much-hated exit visas and letters of

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Leader of the Ladies in White Berta Soler shows her new passport in Havana. Cubans are now able to leave the country with just a passport and no need for much-hated exit visas and letters of invitation the communist government imposed in 1961 to slow a mass exodus of people fleeing after the 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro. The reform was announced in October to address the near universal complaints by Cubans about the expensive and time-consuming paperwork requirements that purposely made it difficult to leave the island.

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| Photo by Enrique De La Osa / Reuters