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Cuba: Travel Permit

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco

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Posted 20 March 2009 14:52 GMT

“I will sit in the crowded lobby of the mansion at 17th and K for only two reasons: to inconvenience them with my pigheadedness and to claim my rights. To show them the visa document that authorizes my entry to many parts of the world, while ‘they’ curb my travel”: Generation Y is once more awaiting approval for a permit to travel out of Cuba.

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