A tip-off led to several arrests over the weekend in the vicinity of Juan Francisco beach in Camajuaní, Villa Clara. The events date back to the early hours of last Friday to Saturday when a group of townspeople, mostly young men but also women and children, were preparing to leave Cuba illegally but were intercepted by the police and arrested.
In Camajuaní, there is no doubt that police effectiveness was due to a tip-off. According to a local resident who spoke to CiberCuba, it is rumored in the town that someone overheard members of the group planning the illegal exit through the backyard of a house and alerted the National Revolutionary Police (PNR), who aborted the operation at Juan Fanguito beach, as it is popularly known, because when it rains, it becomes hellishly muddy.
Among those detained there would be a woman with pending legal issues. According to a neighbor consulted, she had been convicted and was awaiting entry into prison. Another person mentioned that she was awaiting trial.
It also provides details of what happened, the Facebook profile of La Tijera, which points out the "secrecy" that has been left behind by the arrest of a group of young people who were trying to leave the country through Juan Francisco Beach.
In this case, La Tijera places the arrest on Thursday night, on the road that leads to Juan Francisco beach, where a group of young people who intended to leave for Miami on a boat was arrested.
The regrettable aspect of all this is that up to now, they continue to be detained, including mothers with their children. The exact number is not known. Family members mention around 20, an imprecise figure," insists the publication that detects a change in attitude by the regime, which had been turning a blind eye and "encouraging the exodus of Cubans by any means" in recent times.
The big question, according to La Tijera, is what they plan to do now with those people who have been detained for over 48 hours. "The secrecy in this case is very strange. Less silence for more justice," the Facebook post proclaims.
The latest rafters of whom there is news arrived to disembark on July 1st in Key West, Florida. A group of 15 Cubans reached land on a "homemade vessel" in the area of Smathers Beach, as specified by Samuel Briggs II, chief of the Miami Sector of the Border Patrol, in X. Additionally, he warned that they will be processed for deportation.
On June 30, seven Cuban rafters arrived on the coasts of Mexico, despite the bad weather caused by the proximity of Hurricane Beryl. They landed in Isla Mujeres, to the east of the country. The group arrived near the MIA Reef hotel, in the north of the famous tourist destination near the Yucatan Peninsula, under the curious gaze of tourists, according to a report from the Ninth Naval Region of the Mexican Navy belonging to the Secretariat of the Navy. All occupants of the boat arrived safely.
Last May, four survivors of a shipwreck in which four other Cubans died were rescued by Mexican fishermen after spending 34 days adrift at sea. The Mexican government granted them residence cards for humanitarian reasons.
At the end of 2023, authorities in Florida counted 3,836 Cuban rafters who arrived on its shores.
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