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People - note Cuba, in 26 editions.

The entry for Cuba published People - note in 26 editions of 36, from 2000 to 2025. The text changed in 8 editions. Each is shown as published. People - note in every entry.

editions changed the text
8
the first edition with it
2000
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “People - note” (2000 to 2025).

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2025 edition

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The same text in 8 editions, 2018 to 2025.

  • illicit emigration is a continuing problem;
  • Cubans attempt to depart the island and enter the US using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, direct flights, or falsified visas;
  • Cubans also use non-maritime routes to enter the US including direct flights to Miami and overland via the southwest border;
  • the number of Cubans migrating to the US surged after the announcement of normalization of US-Cuban relations in late December 2014 but has decreased since the end of the so-called "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy on 12 January 2017

illicit emigration is a continuing problem; Cubans attempt to depart the island and enter the US using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, direct flights, or falsified visas; Cubans also use non-maritime routes to enter the US including direct flights to Miami and overland via the southwest border; the number of Cubans migrating to the US has surged since after the beginning announcement of improved normalization of US-Cuban relations in late December 2014 but has decreased since the end of the so-called "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy on 12 January 2017

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Central Intelligence Agency. “Cuba: People - note.” The World Factbook, 2000–2025 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/cuba/people-note.

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