MEXICO CITY, Mexico.- The Cuban journalist Carlos Manuel Alvarez he was unable to catch Havana-bound American Airlines Flight 837 from Miami International Airport. With the ticket in his hand, they notified him that he was not admitted to Cuba.
“The political regime of my country has just denied me entry to the island. The airline officials have not been able to offer me any explanation, only that they cannot allow me to board. ‘You have been denied from Havana’, they told me. I am calm, the pain is now permanent, ”Álvarez wrote on his social networks.
Journalist, recognized with the Don Quixote awardHe added that he will explain the details of what happened for a while. He also recalled that the regime had arranged the same fate for other Cuban men and women who opposed it. “I feel that sharing the fate of two women like Anamely Ramos and Omara Ruiz Urquiola right now justifies my life. I want to believe that I have gone to the limit in confronting the direct injustice that has subjugated my country for decades.”
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On June 25, the civic activist and former professor at the University of Havana, Omara Ruiz-Urquiola could not return to Cuba, where her mother, old and alone, is waiting for her.
Omara at the Fort Lauderdale airport was informed by Southwest airline officials that they had received an email from the island explicitly prohibiting her entry.
Last month, the opposition member denounced that she was again prevented from returning to Cuba for the third time since she arrived in Miami in 2021, to undergo medical treatment.
At the beginning of this year, the activist and member of the San Isidro Movement Anamely Ramos was also unable to board an American Airlines flight between Miami and Cuba, after the authorities of her country refused her entry to the island.
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