Miguel Diaz-Canel emphasized last Sunday that one of the biggest problems generated by the growing migration of young Cubans is the departure from the country of"women of reproductive age"; reasoning that he then tried to qualify by saying that a part of the people who the government wants them to have a life project in their country are leaving.
"We are concerned, of course, because women of reproductive age are leaving,For us it is very important to change the demographic dynamics; Cuban men and women who we want to be here, who have a life project in their country, are leaving, quality work force is leaving," said the president in response to a question from journalist Fabiola López about Cuban youth.
"I always think that an important part will return because this is their homeland and Cubans generally carry a feeling for their homeland.", also said the president, who pointed out that only those who leave for political reasons would not return, which he indicated is not the majority.
Despite admitting in his response that growing migration is a problem in Cuba, Díaz-Canel began by downplaying the issue by insisting that it is a global phenomenon, and that it does not only concern the island.
"There is a lot of talk about Cuban emigration, I believe that we must talk about emigration in the entire world. We are concerned about Cuban emigration but the entire world is experiencing an intense immigration issue", he indicated.
The governor blamed the growing migratory numbers on the "american dream paradigm woven from the United States", and took the opportunity to emphasize that the reality once they arrive there is not so idyllic, and that in the current economic conditions worldwide "that discourse was broken."
"Now people are arriving and what is beginning to appear are manifestations of xenophobia, manifestations of discrimination, and walls are being built, and bridges are not being built," he concluded.
In February of this year, the vice head of the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI) of Cuba called not to dramatize the aging of the population on the Island, although he admitted that the drop in the number of births "is not a minor issue." .
Juan Carlos Alfonso Fraga, director of the entity, acknowledged in an interview with the agencyAP that at the end of 2022 the official number of Cubans was 11,089,500, a preliminary data that did not take into account the more than 330,000 Cubans who entered the United States through its southern border between October 2021 and December 2022.
Last year, 95,402 people were born in Cuba and 129,049 died, numbers even worse than those of 2021, when there were 99,096 births and 167,000 deaths.
In contrast to the data offered by the vice head of the state organization, other experts believe that there are actually just over 10 million inhabitants in Cuba.
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