But it does provide an opening. The estimated 1.5 million Americans with family in Cuba will now be freer to visit and send financial help to their relatives.
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While we waited, the stories began to circulate about more and more people, just private citizens, being allowed to travel abroad to visittheirrelatives and friends.
The living traditionally visittheir dead relatives in early November, which gives rise to a frenzied cleaning of tombs and headstones throughout the country in the second half of October.