The Cuban regime qualifiedthe current migration crisis as "the largest in the history of Cuba," but blamed the United States government for the massive exodus that has pushed hundreds of thousands of Cubans to leave the Island.
This was recognized by the deputy director general for the United States of the Cuban Foreign Ministry,Johana Tablada de la Torre inPress conference held in Havana, during which he attributed the flow of migrants to that country to its “maximum pressure policy” towards the Havana regime.
“We reiterate that the blockade and the additional and maximum pressure measures of the United States government constitute the issue that has the most weight today in the bilateral immigration scenario,” said the official.
Likewise, he stressed that “the impact of these extreme and inhuman measures on our population constitutes the main incentive that explains the unprecedented increase in the current migratory flow, which is disproportionate.and that it is, in essence, the largest migratory wave in the history of Cuba”.
This Tuesday the38th Round of Cuba-United States Migration Talks. U.S. and Cuban officials will meet to discuss the implementation of the Cuba-U.S. Migration Agreements, a series of bilateral commitments dating back to 1984.
The meeting occurs at a time of diplomatic tensions between both nations,after the protests of March 17 in several cities on the island, because the Cuban regimeblames the US government for promoting these demonstrations.
In his statements, Tablada de la Torre denounced that the United States embassy in Havana has not resumed issuing visas to visit family members (a policy that resumed in August 2023), or the resumption of professional and cultural exchanges with that country,something that is also contradicted by the Biden administration's May 2022 announcement.
Likewise, he described the immigration measures implemented by said administration as failures (including thehumanitarian parole that has allowedthe emigration of 81,000 Cubans from its implementation until February 2024) and revealed that the wave of migration to the United Stateshas intensified in recent months.
“Nothing indicates that this is going to change,” considered the Foreign Ministry official (MINREX) before reiterating that the Cuban regime has “the will to cooperate to promote safe and orderly migration.”
The Cuban delegation, headed by the vice minister of Foreign Affairs,Carlos Fernández de Cossío Domínguez, will insist in Washington that “the interventionist actions and programs of the United States government to attack the constitutional order, with destabilizing purposes, also violate the spirit of the current agreements.”
The regime persists in its strategy of blaming the United States for the mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of Cubans in the last two years and holding it responsible for the consequences of this “irregular and disorderly emigration.”
The objective is to pressure theBiden administration to lift “the blockade,” or at least to remove Cuba from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, and to do so they have the “strong idea” that the United States has created “extraordinary and artificial stimuli for Cuban emigration.” .
The economic crisis, inflation, general shortages, poverty and growing inequalities, the lack of rights and freedoms or repression do not constitute “factors” triggering the stampede carried out by a significant percentage of the Cuban population to any point on the planet.
The outbreak of citizen unrest in the streets, in the networks and in Cuban families has been the main trigger of the regime's repression, but also of its strategy to relieve itself from social pressure: emigration.
To achieve this, they have maneuvered with allied regimes such as that of Nicaragua, with which they agreedvisa exemption for its nationals and where the bulk of the Cuban migrants who have crossed or are waiting to cross the southern border of the United States have left.
When it is not “the blockade and the additional and maximum pressure measures,” it is the “extraordinary and artificial stimuli for Cuban emigration.” The fact is that the regime does not take responsibility for the stampede of hundreds of thousands of Cubans in recent years and dresses its survival plan and its “political project” of perpetuating itself in power with various justifications.
“The 200 thousand that the United States thought were going to go out to overthrow the government... emigrated“, Tablada de la Torre told the channelRussia Today last October, recognizing with evident satisfaction the regime's masterstroke to maintain thethe state in which, an objective that will also boost their negotiation strategies in Washington this Tuesday.
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