More than a month later, the Cuban Government begins the return of those stranded in Haiti

The Cuban Government began this Friday the operation to return the more than 250 people who had been stranded for more than a month in Haiti, a country devastated by clashes between gangs and the Police, in the midst of a serious humanitarian crisis.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) reported in a Twitter thread about the beginning of the first phase of the return operation of citizens, who travel in a bus caravan from Port-au-Prince to the city of Cap Haitien, in the north of the country. .

"The second phase of this operation will be implemented from the Cap Haitien airport, with the transfer by air to Cuba through the Sunrise airline. The transfer is carried out safely and without any incident," the tweet says.

According to the Foreign Ministry, the transfer was coordinated by the Cuban authorities, various Ministries and the Cuban embassy in Haiti, whose officials are in charge of verifying the process.

It's been almost a month since the Government announced the repatriation of Cubans who were stranded in Haiti, with flights to Camagüey and Santiago de Cuba, once operations resume at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport.

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez reported that more than 260 Cubans were stuck in the Caribbean country and that the government maintained communication with them and their families.

"Good more than 260 Cubans stranded, more than 2,000 Cubans in different conditions in Haiti, who receive assistance from our Government," the minister said then.

At the beginning of April, 257 Cubans who were still trapped in Haiti after the suspension of Sunrise Airways flights between Cuba and Port-au-Prince due to the chaos in that country, They asked for help to return to their homeland.

The majority had a date to return to Cuba on March 29, 1 and 4, but after the first riots occurred, all flights were canceled.

"No one takes responsibility for our situation and our families are desperate in Cuba. We are afraid because we have never been in a situation like this," Cuban Roger Román denounced on TikTok.

Initially, neither the Cuban embassy in Haiti nor the airline responded to the request for help from the Cubans, who took refuge in rented houses and tried not to go out on the streets, but with a limited amount of food.