“If they return them to Cuba, they will never be someone else”

MADRID, Spain.- Relatives of the two Cubans who they landed on the morning of this March 25 in Key West aboard a motorized hang glider, they have asked that they not be returned to Cuba, for fear of reprisals on the island.

“If they are returned to the problem that they are going to look for, it has no word, it does not compare with anything. The problem that they are going to find is going to be gigantic, they will never be able to be someone else in their life, ”he told Telemundo 51 Laura Hernández Chirino, sister of Ismael Hernández Chirino, one of the migrants.

The woman also explained that “they made commercial flights for tourism and with some Cubans who could afford it.” Just as she assured that the family was unaware of her plans.

Regarding the danger of being returned to Cuba, the relatives recalled that the Cuban Aviation Club (CAC) described the fact as a “violation of airspace” and referred to the theft of the equipment (state property), with registration CU- u 1619.

“The Cuban Aviation Club denounces this fact and transmits to the corresponding international authorities its disagreement with facts like these and requests that these individuals be applied the sanctions corresponding to the seriousness of the case and the return of the stolen equipment,” the entity indicated in a official note.

The other pilot was identified as David López Alfonso. Upon arrival in the United States on the hang glider, both were detained and made available to the authorities.

After transcending the fact, the Cuban-American congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar He expressed his respects to the pilots and said from the social network Twitter: “If someone comes to you with the story of Socialism in Cuba, tell them about these brave Cubans who crossed the Florida Straits today in this device and landed in Key West.”

If someone comes to you with the story of Socialism in Cuba, tell them about these brave Cubans who today crossed the Straits of Florida in this device and landed in Key West.

My respects! pic.twitter.com/ceJpCjvx7o

— Maria Elvira Salazar ?? (@MaElviraSalazar) March 25, 2023

last february received political asylum the pilot Rubén Martínez Machado, who will arrive in the United States in October 2022 aboard a Soviet-made Antonov AN-2 plane.