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Cubans protest new Ecuador visa regulation
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/28/us-ecuador-cuba-protest-idUSKBN0TG23X20151128#KSSDUqWCK6OUfq4B.97Hundreds of Cubans protested at the Ecuadorean embassy in Cuba on Friday, a day after the Andean nation announced they would need visas to enter the country as of Dec. 1.
The Cubans waved their passports and plane tickets and said they were angry because they had already bought tickets under the previous no-visa policy of Ecuador and wanted passage or their money back.
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Ecuador said it made the decision at a regional meeting on Tuesday in El Salvador to discuss the future of thousands of Cubans stranded at the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border en route to the United States.
"We decided to impose the visa requirement for Cuban citizens in order to discourage the flow of people seeking to reach the United States," Ecuador's foreign minister, Xavier Lasso, told reporters on Thursday.
Read more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/28/us-ecuador-cuba-protest-idUSKBN0TG23X20151128#lZPouCXPbShYWPLD.99
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