Fidel Casto is retired, what's in store for Cuba?

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More Cubans abandoning communist island in 'silent exodus'

by Patrick Lescot Sun Apr 13, 10:20 PM ET

HAVANA (AFP) - Despite a dizzying array of reforms since Raul Castro took the helm of Cuba's government, 2008 looks to be a record year for emigration, as inhabitants abandon the communist island in droves.
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In the first half of the US fiscal year, which began on October 1, almost 3,000 Cubans tried to reach US shores by crossing the shark-infested Florida Straits, according to the US Interests Section in Havana. The number represents a 21 percent increase over the previous year.

Some Cubans are abandoning the island of some 11 million inhabitants legally; Others leave illegally, crowded on smugglers' fastboats. Almost all are heading to the islands nearby arch-enemy, the United States.

Illegal emigrants -- who are returned to Cuba by US authorities if picked up at sea, but get to stay in the United States if they reach US soil -- are joined another 20,000 Cubans to whom the Interests Section grants legal immigrant visas here every year, under the immigration accords Havana and Washington struck in 1994 and 1995.

And to their total one can add some 10,000 who hand themselves to US authorities at the Mexican border.

US authorities estimate that some 35,000 Cubans will arrive to stay this year in the United States, which grants them immediate residency and working rights for fleeing communism. It does not do the same for Chinese or Vietnamese immigrants.

full story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080414...iticsmigration


File photo shows Cuban women talking on the waterfront in Havana, as a coastguard boat passes by. Despite a dizzying array of reforms since Raul Castro took the helm of Cuba's government, 2008 looks to be a record year for emigration, as inhabitants abandon the communist island in droves.
(AFP/File/Adalberto Roque)


Cuba's President Raul Castro, center, Abel Prieto, Minister of Culture, right, and Miguel Barnet, new president of the Cuban artists and writers association, raise their arms during the closing ceremony of the 7th Congress of Cuban artists and writers in Havana, Friday, April 4, 2008.
(AP Photo/Ismael Francisco/Prensa Latina)


Shoppers look at products for sale at a store in Havana, Tuesday, April 1, 2008. Cuban shoppers are buying goods for the first time that were previously available only to foreigners after the government of new President Raul Castro lifted a ban on products that affected Cuban citizens.
(AP Photo/Javier Galeano)