The United States Coast Guard repatriated 33 Cubans who tried to reach the country’s coasts illegally and were intercepted in four operations carried out in the Florida Keys, the institution reported on Friday.
In two cases, which occurred on Sunday and Monday, crews of ships from the Coast Guard base in Miami alerted their peers in Key West about rustic boats a few miles from this part of the island chain located in the extreme south. of this state.
In the other two cases, on Monday and Tuesday, anonymous citizens alerted the coast guards at the Key West base about two other precarious boats with immigrants on board.
In one of them, the individual alerted the coastguard about “people in the water after their raft capsized”, approximately 35 miles (56 kilometers) south of Marathon
In one of them, the private alerted the Coast Guard about “people in the water after their raft capsized”, approximately 35 miles (56 kilometers) south of Marathon, in the Florida Keys.
The 33 immigrants apprehended as a result of these operations were repatriated to Cuba on Thursday, the institution reported on Friday.
On his Twitter account, the Coast Guard reported late this Friday of the rescue of 19 other Cubans by a “good Samaritan”, in this case a freighter, who located the rafters some 33 miles southeast of the Alligator Reef Lighthouse, near Purple Island , in Florida.
So far this fiscal year, that is, since October 1, 2021, the Coast Guard has intercepted 938 Cubans at sea, that is, more than the total of 838 for the entire fiscal period 2021 and well above the 49 of fiscal year 2020.
According to figures provided by the US authorities, in fiscal year 2019 there were 313 Cuban immigrants intercepted, and in 2018 the number reached 259, while in 2017 and 2016 1,468 and 5,396 Cubans were intercepted at sea, respectively.
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