The Cuban ruler Miguel Diaz-Canel He traveled to Mexico this Sunday to participate in a summit on irregular migration, whose objective is to try to stop the unprecedented number of immigrants arriving in the United States through illegal routes.
"Today, together with leaders from the region, I will participate in the Palenque Meeting: 'For a Fraternal and Well-Being Neighborhood', convened by President López Obrador, to discuss irregular migration in Latin America and the Caribbean, a highly sensitive issue for Cuba. "Díaz-Canel announced on Twitter.
The president arrived in Palenque, in the state of Chiapas, accompanied by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Vice Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossio and other officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The delegation traveled to the Aztec nation on a Venezuelan-registered plane.
As revealed by the Inventory Project, it is the YV659T "that normally flies between national destinations in Cuba without accounting for who it transports or who finances it."
They attend the meeting leaders and high representatives of 11 countries: Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Panama and Venezuela.
López Obrador announced last week that Díaz-Canel was invited to the migration summit this Sunday.
AMLO called this summit to try to find a joint response that would reduce the number of people who cross Central America and arrive in Mexico to continue to the United States.
The president affirmed that Latin America must work on the causes that lead to the increase in migrants, not only think about militarizing borders, and that their governments must agree first before seeking cooperation from the United States.
The event takes place a few hours after the arrival in Cuba of 65 migrants who were deported from Mexico and the Bahamas.
So far this year, 114 deportations have been carried out from various countries, in which 4,607 migrants have been returned to Cuba.
Mexico resumed deportation flights to Cuba last Saturday, October 14, with the sending to Havana of 138 migrants (95 men and 43 women) from Tapachula.
More than 200,000 Cubans entered the United States through its land borders in the recently concluded fiscal year 2023 (FY2023), according to official figures.
The Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detailed in its year-end report that from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 200,287 Cubans requested political refuge in United States territory.
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