This seems like a significant piece of welcome news from Cuba. Rather than apply for a visa if they want to travel abroad, now Cubans will just require a passport:
Cuba previously saw people attempting to leave the country as traitors or enemies of the revolution, says our correspondent, but official recognition is growing that many Cubans want to leave for economic reasons.
This comes after a series of modest reforms, making it easier for Cubans to, for example, buy and sell houses and cars and employ people. I wonder what our comrades over on Socialist Unity think of all these worrying concessions to bourgeois values.
Gene adds: I hope this means that the blogger Yoani Sanchez will finally be allowed to travel outside of Cuba.