A new group of migrants Haitians landed this Friday on the coast of Cuba, according to official media.
The group of 141 people — including 22 children and several pregnant women — capsized in the southern province of Cienfuegos while trying to reach the United States.
The landing occurred at La Tatagua beach, after eight days of sailing from the island of Gonâve, west of Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, as reported the local newspaper September 5.
The boat in which the migrants were travelling, “beyond capacity and in precarious conditions,” ran aground on that beach on the Cienfuegos coast, some 50 kilometers from the main city, the newspaper said.
One of the castaways told the Cuban press that the expedition had set sail for the United States, but bad weather conditions brought them to the south-central coast of Cuba.
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After their arrival on the Cienfuegos coast, the Haitians are cared for by Red Cross forces, the government and other local entities, which provide the arrivals with “the necessary care, including medical assistance and the rigorous health check-up,” says the report. news office.
Nadezka Carvajal Curí, head of operations for the Red Cross in the province, told the September 5 that “immediate attention was given to the sick” and explained that “everyone is tested for antigens, while food and housing conditions are provided.”
The migrants were located in the Ismaelillo Pioneer Camp, while the Cuban authorities manage their safe return to Haiti with their peers from the neighboring nation, “by virtue of the international commitments on migration to which Cuba is a party.”
The arrival of irregular Haitian migrants on Cuban shores has increased in recent times due to the political and economic instability that Haiti is going through, which has generated a climate of insecurity and violence in that Caribbean country.
Vessels from Haitian territory have recently landed in northern Cuba, especially in the central province of Villa Clara, where at the end of May one of those vessels capsized with more than 800 people on board, and a month later another landed with more of 200 migrants.
