Cubans protest at Havana airport over canceled flight to Nicaragua.

Cuban passengers who were planning to travel to Nicaragua with a layover in Caracas, Venezuela, protested at the entrance of the José Martí International Airport in Havana, due to the cancellation of their flight without prior notice.

In a video shared by Cuban-American journalist Mario J. Pentón, several Cubans can be seen gathering to demand a solution to the cancellation of their flight or at least an explanation from authorities, all with their arms crossed and without saying a word.

According to what can be heard in the video, many of those present, whose travel plans seemed to have been canceled, had purchased their tickets through a travel agency, from which, apparently, there was no representative at the airport facility.

"The regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua have engaged in multimillion-dollar businesses with illegal emigration to the United States," says Pentón in the description of his video published on his account on the social network X.

The communicator mentioned that the video was sent to him from Havana and "it shows a group of passengers protesting because they are not being allowed to board a Venezuelan airline destined for Havana-Caracas-Managua. Everyone knows they will not return. The massive exodus has been a political weapon against the U.S., used by dictatorships in the hemisphere for decades."

Since May 5, the Venezuelan airline has increased flights departing from Caracas (Venezuela) to Managua (Nicaragua), with a layover in Havana (Cuba).

The increase in these types of flights benefits Cubans who travel as mules to Venezuela and also serves as an escape route for Cuban emigrants who use Nicaragua on their way to the United States.

Monthly data published by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) indicated that 18,988 Cubans arrived on U.S. soil in the fifth month of the year, the majority crossing through the land border that separates the country from Mexico.

The figures indicate that approximately 11,466 Cubans arrived through the southern US border, while only 31 arrived through the northern border, bordering Canada, matching the number of entries through that area as the previous month. The remaining 7,491 arrived by sea.

Recently, the Korean tiktoker Lim Jae Jun shared his unusual experience on a flight from Managua to Caracas, where he was the only passenger on board.