Madrid Spain.- A total of 280 Cuban migrants were returned to the island this Tuesday from the United States, Mexico and the Bahamas by air and sea. The Caribbean people were in these territories irregularly.
As specified by the official media the US government returned 225 Cubans who tried to reach the country in rustic boats or through human trafficking.
While another 28 were repatriated from Mexico, bringing the total to 1,697 Cubans returned to the island so far this year, for a total of 33 operations of this type.
Another flight arrived in the last few hours from Nassau, in the Bahamas, with 27 West Indians; for a total of 312 returnees from that country during 2022.
According to the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), the arrival on the island of these 280 people was carried out in compliance with the internationally established health protocols for these cases. Upon arrival they were sent to their respective provinces.
“The operations are in accordance with the political will expressed by the Cuban government to achieve legal, safe and orderly migration, for which there are bilateral agreements with the authorities of the United States, Mexico and the Bahamas,” says the MININT.
The mass exodus that Cuba is experiencing has surpassed the Mariel crisis and the 1994 rafters crisis. They have intercepted more than 5,000 Cubans, a figure that exceeds the number of migrants from the island intercepted each fiscal year from 2017 to 2021.
This Monday the regime released a audiovisual series to address issues related to emigration. Already in its first broadcast, the Cuban authorities blamed the United States for the current migration crisis.
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