The Cuban regime identified in the media the boatman captured in Villa Clara on October 30, when the boat in which he left Miami to pick up and take more than 20 people to the United States, had problems and was left adrift.
The spokesperson of the dictatorship Humberto Lopez presented on television Rafael López Morales, known as Fifo, who faces a crime of human trafficking.
According to the information provided by Humberto, the accused was born in the municipality of Encrucijada, and before leaving Cuba he was prosecuted for theft in 1991 and 1997.
He emigrated illegally in 2001, and then began his activity in human trafficking, as a boatman. He took family, friends and other people out of the country, including women, children and fugitives from justice.
"For each illegal trafficking operation, has received sums ranging between 60 thousand and 100 thousand dollars"emphasized the presenter.
The report showed López Morales in statements in which he admitted that on Saturday, October 29, he entered the Cuban coast to pick up 28 people, but that his engines broke down and he had to jump into the sea, where he stayed for more than 48 hours. .
"I have entered this country four or five times doing that act. On those occasions, I have been caught twice in the United States, it has been 'pulling' four or five years. I lost my papers, that's why I was never able to come see my family," he said.
According to Fifo, the owners of the boat contacted him and told him how many travelers he should pick up; The more there were, the more he charged. Generally there were more than 20.
"Each person gives 12, 14, 15 thousand dollars. The capacity of it [the boat] was for 14 or 15 people. For this trip they were going to give me 100 thousand dollars", accurate.
On October 30, the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) announced that it found 26 Cubans - among them four minors - who had been left adrift on a boat fast with United States registration, in waters north of Villa Clara.
"The boat violated our territorial waters and was disabled and adrift in the bay of Nazábal, Encrucijada, Villa Clara. Among those rescued were four minors, including a girl with acute symptoms of dehydration," the statement said.
The MININT stressed that, according to the initial statements of those involved, "the traffickers abandoned them to their fate on the boat."
"Once again, the impunity with which human trafficking operations destined for that country are organized and coordinated in the USA is revealed, which encourages criminal individuals to carry out these actions that endanger the lives of human beings," the note emphasized.
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