SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The United States government asked airlines not to allow the irregular transfer of migrants to Nicaragua, a government representative confirmed Wednesday to Marti News.
The United States Undersecretary of Homeland Security, Blas Núñez Neto, told that media that they are asking companies and countries in the region not to contribute to facilitating the irregular flow of immigrants to Nicaragua.
“We have been talking with all the governments and airlines that work in the region to socialize with them the challenge that we are facing with the authorities in Managua,” Núñez Neto told Marti News.
According to the complaint, the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, facilitate “human trafficking and smuggling to the United States.”
The official did not comment on the cancellations of flights from José Martí International Airport to Nicaragua. However, he did reply: “I can tell you that we are working with all airlines and governments in the region to inform them of what we are seeing.”
This Tuesday, approximately 50 Cubans were stranded in Peru after missing a flight to Nicaragua due to a storm that prevented the plane from leaving Havana airport on time, according to journalist Mario J. Pentón in Marti News.
The Cubans were detained in Lima, Peru, where they would only make a stopover until they reached Nicaragua, but a flight from the airline Avianca was delayed and they will have to return to Cuba.
“We are here, stranded in Peru, around 50 Cubans. We all had tickets “on a plane with a final destination of Nicaragua, but due to a storm in Havana, our flight was delayed and we missed our connection,” Cuban dissident Midaisy Marrero Gil told Pentón.
Marrero explained that the airline has not taken responsibility. “They have left us here, we have been at the airport for three days, sleeping on benches and suffering from the cold,” he added.
“We are being scammed. The airlines are taking all our money and killing our hopes of escaping Cuba. They sold us plane tickets without properly informing us of the restrictions and now they are not refunding our money,” said the Cuban woman, stranded in Peru.
In November 2023, the US State Department had announced in a statement a new visa restriction policy targeting individuals involved in operating flights to Nicaragua, a route frequently used by irregular migrants.
According to the report, charter companies were “offering flights and charging extortionate prices” that lead migrants to a “dangerous land route to the U.S. border.” USA”.
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