He parole The humanitarian aid established by the United States last January has not deterred Cubans from continuing to leave through irregular means, and dozens of them continue to try to reach the Florida coast. This is the case of two groups of at least 35 people who are missing, according to their relatives.
Santiago Jesús Álvarez, one of these disappeared persons, had to sell the refrigerator and the television in the house to be able to pay for the trip on the raft, his mother María Álvarez told Univisión 23. Twenty people left Santiago de Cuba on the boat on the 16th March, including several children and a pregnant woman. “I would like to know that at least he is alive, that he is in the Bahamas and that he will return one day.”
According to official data, in the last six months the Coast Guard has thwarted landing attempts in Florida of 6,250 Cuban rafters, a figure that already exceeds the 6,182 for the entire previous year.
The twin brothers Alexey and Asley González Méndez, 31, their friend Yusdiel de Armas and 12 other people, who left the island for Sagua la Grande on March 24, are missing, denounced Yaiset Rodríguez Fernández through your Facebook account. “His family and friends of him are desperate because they have not heard from them,” she stressed.
Jairon Leal commented in the publication that this group could be the one that was intercepted by a US Coast Guard vessel, since there were 15 people found, “several of them from Cienfuegos.”
#breaking @USCG Cutter Manowar’s crew transferred 23 Cubans to Bahamian immigration officers Tuesdays. after being rescued off Cay Sal Bank, Bahamas. #DontTakeToTheSea @USEmbassyNassau pic.twitter.com/MxfokCMmmY
—USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) April 4, 2023
The US agency reported on Tuesday that “it transferred on board the ship Manowar 23 Cubans” to the Bahamas after they were rescued from the area known as Placer de los Roques.
That same day, it was reported that another 47 people had been returned on the ship. Margaret Norvell to the Island after two interceptions off the coast of Florida. on sunday usa returned to another group of 67 Cubans. Lieutenant John Beal of the 7th District reiterated that “those rafters who go ashore will be detained and processed for removal.”
Although the landing of Cubans in Florida has decreased since last January, the chief officer of the Border Patrol, Walter Slosar, documented with images the arrival of 89 nationals of the Island in the month of March. The largest group was registered after the arrival in two rafts to the Dry Tortugas National Park of 48 Cubans on March 4.
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