LIMA, Peru – The Daniel Ortega regime in Nicaragua ordered the revocation of the visa-free benefit that Cuban citizens had enjoyed since last November 2021.
A newspaper report The Press had access to provision 001-2026 issued through the Ministry of the Interior, according to which, as of this Sunday, February 8, Cubans with ordinary passports change their immigration category from “A” (visa exempt) to “C” (visas consulted at no cost).
According to the Nicaraguan media, the order has not yet been published in the country’s official La Gaceta, although it was already signed by Commissioner General Juan Emilio Rivas, general director of the General Directorate of Migration and Immigration of the Ministry of the Interior.
The decision occurs amid tensions between the Ortega and Rosario Murillo dictatorship with the United States, which accuses the Nicaraguan regime of facilitating irregular migration and has imposed sanctions against airlines, businessmen and related officials.
In the coming days, it is expected that the Nicaraguan authorities will notify diplomatic offices, airlines, and land and sea transportation companies to apply the new regulations, including the Cuban consulate in Nicaragua and the Nicaraguan consular offices abroad.
After the massive protests of July 11 and 12, 2021 on the Island, motivated by widespread shortages, blackouts and lack of freedoms, the Ortega regime He extended his hand to Castroism by offering free visas for Cubans.
Since then, hundreds of thousands of Cubans traveled to Managua as a stopover to continue to Mexico, the United States and other countries. Nicaragua became a migratory “bridge”, also serving as a means to release pressure on the tyranny of Cuba in the face of popular discontent and the serious existing crisis.
