Cuba and Mexico meet to address immigration issues

The Cuban government has previously acknowledged that this is the largest wave of migration in the country's history.

5/14/2024 - 2:25pm (GMT-5) |

The governments of Cuba and Mexico meet this Tuesday, in Havana, to address the irregular migration crisis to the United States, an issue that has kept Latin America in tension.

The XVI Meeting of the Working Group on Migratory and Consular Affairs between the Republic of Cuba and the United Mexican States will be chaired by the Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío and the Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs Laura Elena Carrillo Cubillas, indicated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Caribbean island.

The challenges that migration has posed for the governments of the region are dissimilar, among them are the calls not to take dangerous routes, in addition to the measures taken by the US administration with respect to its southern border.

Recently, The presidents of the United States and Mexico, Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced that they would adopt immediate measures to "significantly" reduce irregular migrant crossings on the border between both countries.

"In the short term, the two leaders ordered their national security teams to work together to immediately implement concrete measures to significantly reduce irregular border crossings while protecting human rights," details a joint text shared to the public.

Regarding Cuban migration figures, More than 10,400 nationals of the island have been detained by Mexican authorities during the first quarter of the current year, according to numbers offered by the Migration Policy Unit of the Ministry of the Interior of the Aztec country.

With that figure, 10,464 to be exact, the Caribbean island occupies ninth position among the countries with the most people detained in Mexican territory.

Regarding a immigration round between the Cuban and US governments, held on April 16 in Washington, The Cuban regime described the current migrant 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.