Cuban planes fly to Nicaragua after increased US sanctions

TheUnited States sanctions on transportation companies that facilitate the entry of irregular immigrants into the country, motivated the departure of airline companies from the Havana-Managua route, which apparently has been recovered with the Cuban government fleet.

Although the marketing of this type of flights has not been standardized, monitoring through the flight tracking platformFlightAware, allows you to observe how AeroGaviota and Cubana de Aviación, the main operators in the country, make trips to the Nicaraguan capital.

“Does the PCC dare so much that it uses its own planes to transport Cubans to exile in the United States, via Managua, after the POTUS restrictions on Dominican Republic airlines?” denounced the user of the social network known as Twitter, Falcon.

Areview on said flight tracking application It was found that the last flight operated by a Cuban airline was last Saturday, March 23, on that occasion with a traditional ATR 42-500 from Cubana de Aviación and flight number CU-T1240, departing from Managua at 12:03 p.m. and arrival at José Martí Airport in Havana at 4:57 p.m.

Also withAeroGaviotaOn March 19, the Cuban regime made a flight to Nicaragua, arriving at 10:29 a.m. and departure at 1:20 p.m.

Last November,the Air Century companies, based in the Dominican Republic, andAruba Airlines, suspended flights from Cuba to Nicaragua after the announcements of sanctions by the United States government for airline companies.charter that facilitate illegal migration.

The US government announced visa restrictions under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) "against the owners, executives and senior officials of companies that offer charter flights to Nicaragua designed to be used primarily by irregular migrants to the United States." Joined".

A statement released by the State Department stated that this would be just the beginning of a series of measures against charter flight companies that "have been offering flights - and charging extortion prices - that put migrants on a dangerous land route." north, to the border with the United States."

On February 21,The North American government updated and extended the measures previously applied exclusively to Nicaragua.

The Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) revealed that during the month of February 2024189,922 immigrant encounters were recorded, one of the highest figures reported for a month of February in recent years.