The Mexican government returned to Cuba on Friday 64 migrants who were in an irregular situation in that country.
The group was made up of 51 men and 13 women who arrived at the José Martí International Airport in Havana.
According to the state agency Latin Press, at the air terminal they underwent a PCR test to detect COVID-19 and received medical attention and food, before being transferred to their provinces of residence.
With this new group of deportees, the number of emigrants returned to Cuba this year from Mexico amounts to 1,247.
This is the Cuban return operation number 21 carried out by the immigration authorities of the Aztec country in 2022.
Official Cuban information assures that the migrants left Cuba legally and once in Mexico they continued their journey to the United States.
In total, 2,980 people have been returned to the Island from Mexico, the United States and the Bahamas this year in 69 return operations.
Last Thursday, Cubans living in the Mexican city of Mérida protested in front of the National Migration Institute (INM) against the deportation of several countrymen, even though they had a visa.
Helen Figueroa, one of the protesters, said that the new immigration delegate in Yucatán, named Carmen Yadira de los Santos Robledo, "began to detain and deport" Cubans who arrived by air even if they had a Spanish passport and visa, and that in In the last three weeks, more than 80 who arrived legally were returned.
According to Figueroa, the Cubans are detained at the Mérida airport and kept there incommunicado for several hours, without notifying the embassy or their acquaintances, and they are not allowed to taste food or water. On the next flight they are deported.
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