(EFE).- A group of 107 irregular Cuban migrants, including the remains of three Cuban citizens who died in an accident in Mexico, were returned to Havana this Friday by the authorities of that country.
Among this new group of returnees are 29 women, 74 men and one girl. With them, there are already 784 Cubans returned from Mexico so far this year through 11 return operations by air.
This time, the flight brought to Havana’s Jose Martí airport the mortal remains of a 37-year-old woman, her 12-year-old daughter and a 19-year-old boy, who lost their lives in a traffic accident that occurred in the southern state of Veracruz on last March 15.
This year, 1,370 irregular Cuban migrants have returned to the island in 30 operations carried out from other countries, according to data released by Mexican media.
The Cuban government insists on advocating “legal, orderly and safe” migration.
This year, 1,370 irregular Cuban migrants have returned to the island in 30 operations carried out from other countries, according to data released by Mexican media.
In recent months, the flow of undocumented migrants from the island who seek to reach the United States using the sea as routes or following different routes through Central America has grown notably.
The Government described last Thursday as “cynical, destabilizing and abusive” the policies of the United States with respect to Cuban migrants, which in its opinion “explain to a large extent” the “irregular migration” from the island to the North American country.
The general director of Consular Affairs and Cuban Residents Abroad of the island Foreign Ministry, Ernesto Soberón, pointed out as the main causes of migration Washington’s “unilateral” non-compliance with bilateral agreements on the matter and the Cuban Adjustment Law in force since 1966.
Analysts believe that the main reason for emigrating is the serious economic crisis that the Caribbean country is going through.
The combination of the pandemic, the tightening of the sanctions of the economic embargo applied by the US to Cuba and the errors in macroeconomic management have generated shortages of basic products, famine, the partial dollarization of the economy and high inflation.
According to the records of the US Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP), in the last five months 47,331 Cubans entered the country irregularly, after the figure reached 16,557 in February.
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