The Municipal Police of the municipality of Tizimín, in the state of Yucatán, arrested nine Cuban rafters this Saturday who were wandering the streets of Puerto del Cuyo, a fishing village of 2,900 inhabitants. “They remained adrift for 16 days fleeing their country,” according to municipal president Pedro Couoh.
“The raft began to sink near the beach, so they threw themselves to reach the shore,” he tells 14ymedio Marcos López, director of the Municipal Police. “The boat or the backpacks in which, according to the majority, they brought their papers, have not yet been found.”
After speaking with the rafters, Couoh reported that some had dehydration problems for which they received medical attention. “We are very sorry for the painful situation that Cubans face every day,” he said in your social networks the official. “They flee the precarious conditions in their country in search of opportunities to improve their quality of life.”
“They flee from the precarious conditions that exist in their country in search of opportunities to improve their quality of life”, says the municipal president Pedro Couoh
The Cubans, seven men and two women, were transferred by the police to the Morelos barracks, where they identified themselves as José Daniel Fife Cobos, 21, Yuriesky Pico Suri (31), Yonel Gamboa Cobos (35), Eliobis Esteven Matos (41). , Yarisleydi Pérez Almaguer (19), Raysel Celada Londres (20), Eleydis Payo Velazco (19), Mainier Miguel Martínez Millán (29) and Pedro Luis Quintana Fraga (32).
Before being handed over to Immigration, it was reported that the rafters asked Couoh for their support to avoid being deported, who told them that he would start with the legal procedures to obtain the safe-conduct permits that would allow them to stay in Mexico for 180 days.
On February 16, the authorities of the states of Yucatan and Quintana Roo were warned by the National Institute of Migration of the arrival of Cuban rafters to the Mexican Caribbean, for which surveillance in the towns was reinforced. Currently more than 1,800 Cubans have made the Yucatecan state their place of residence.
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