Will Cuba’s Absurd Travel and Immigration Restrictions End?

By Yoani Sanchez, Huffington Post Latino Voices

I have accumulated 20 negatives in just five years to my requests to travel. Twenty times I have tried to leave my country and just received a “no” as a response from the Cuban authorities. Although it is hard to accustom oneself to such an absurdity, the truth is that I have learned to live on my island prison. I have consoled myself by saying that all the raw material of my writing was on this Island, in its reality and that it would also be very hard for me to be separated from my family for even a few weeks.

But these were phrases of relief that I repeated to myself from frustration and anger at my inability to travel, so as not to suffer emotional hurt. It was a way of maintaining mental hygiene amid a feeling of seclusion.

This week a new travel and migration law has been approved…  

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This article was first published in Huffington Post Latino Voices.

Yoani Sanchez is an award winning Cuban blogger. Follow Yoani Sanchez on Twitter: www.twitter.com/yoanifromcuba

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