Adermis Wilson González was deported to Mexico after almost three months in immigration detention in Texas.
Miami, United States. – The Cuban Adermis Wilson González, protagonist of the kidnapping of a flight from Cuban of aviation In 2003, he was deported from the US to Mexico after almost three months in immigration detention in Texas and after the Cuban government refused to accept it, as confirmed by relatives of his Strong coffee.
According to that media, the transfer occurred at the beginning of last week in a group of 40 people in which other Cuban citizens also traveled. “They were transferred on a bus and released them after taking a photo, without delivering documents or anything else,” said their sister, Yolaine Wilson. “We have been in contact and send some money so that I can survive there.”
Deportation occurred without ICE and Mexican authorities disseminating figures or lists of expelled. Strong coffee He pointed out that, since August, the administration of Donald Trump has sent hundreds of people from various nationalities to Mexico without offering public data, and that the Mexican government has not officially reported those deportations. Asked about Cuba’s refusal to receive Wilson, the State Department declined to respond to Strong coffee alleging privacy of diplomatic discussions.
The family indicated that Wilson, 56, managed to rent a room that shares with another deported in a Mexican city whose name prefers not to reveal for security. “We are at least grateful that it was not sent to an African country,” said Yolaine. “It is an extremely difficult situation for our family and for a person like him, who fulfilled his sentence and worked hard to make a living in this country.”
Wilson had been arrested at dawn on June 29 during An ICE operation in HoustonTexas. In a previous note of Strong coffeehis sister said then that he could talk to him during the processing: “My brother gave himself peacefully in the middle of a great operation to capture him.” He added that he listened to an officer to mention the possibility of sending him to Mexico as an alternative if Cuba did not accept it.
In a telephone interview from the Detention Center in Texas, before its deportation, Wilson declared to the aforementioned medium: “It is very hard, but if they send me for the place I will accept it.” The media also reported that the Cuban immigrant fears not being able to see his mother, an 87 -year -old old woman who lives in Houston and suffers from Alzheimer’s.
The newspaper The Latin Times He corroborated deportation and said that Wilson was sent by bus with other Latin American deportees.
According to Strong coffeeit is the first case in the recent history of a Cuban who flees from the island by kidnapping or theft of an aircraft and ends up expelled from the United States after complying with a long sentence for that crime. Wilson was released on September 23, 2021 for humanitarian reasons, after completing 20 years of sanction for air piracy and that his deportation process would freeze. He did not obtain protection under the convention against torture (CAT). Strong coffee He recalled that Ice kept him in custody almost five months after expiring his sentence and released him due to health problems that then prevented him from walking without a wheelchair.
The kidnapping that took him to prison occurred on the night of March 31, 2003 on the New Gerona-La Habana route. With two grenades in his hand, Wilson ordered the Antonov-24, with 46 people on board to Miami, but the lack of fuel forced an emergency landing in Havana. After 14 hours of negotiation-with direct intervention by Fidel Castro and the then head of the United States Interesting Office, James Cason-the plane took off the bone escorted by two F-15 and a Black Hawk helicopter. Upon arriving at American soil, Wilson delivered with his hands up. Later it was learned that grenades were false. In a television appearance, Castro described him as “a very cunning individual.”
Four months after kidnapping, a Federal Court sentenced Wilson to 20 years in prison for air piracy. During the fulfillment of the penalty, he studied English, graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Pennsylvania (2013) and completed a master’s degree in logistics at the University of North Carolina.
After his release in 2021, Wilson declared Strong coffee: “I have nothing to reproach the United States government, because I don’t think it was unfair to sanction. He added: “For the first time since I was born I am a free person, because in Cuba I never had freedom.”
