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Cubans read information signs outside the Mexican Embassy in Havana, while queueing to request visas, on January 14, 2013. A law allowing Cubans to travel abroad without special exit visas took effect on the communist-ruled island for the first time in half a century. The measure does away with the exit visas that have kept most Cubans from ever traveling abroad. AFP PHOTO/ADALBERTO ROQUE