The Hemisphere: Crushing Admission

To halt the exodus from his police state, Castro last week canceled 15,000 airline tickets held by Cubans, who have booked every flight out of Havana well into next year. The ticket holders had all received police exit permits, had all paid for their passages with dollars sent from abroad. The government claimed that the step was necessary to end speculation in tickets—in itself a crushing admission of the desire to flee Cuba.

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