text: Another 200,000 abandoned Cuba as part of the Freedom Flights Program between 1965 and 1971 , and 125,000 a good number of whom were said to be criminals followed in 1980 , when Castro lifted travel restrictions from the port of Mariel ( west of Havana ) .
  
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  Castro lifted travel restrictions from the port of Mariel after much pressure from the international community .