Last week, two young Cubans, Alex Vegas Díaz from Santa Clara, and Andorf Velázquez García from Havana, appeared in a video published by the Cuban influencer Alain Paparazzi in which they explained in detail how they ended up in Russia without their passports, not being able to return to the Island. “Cuba’s enemies promote distorted information that seeks to tarnish the image of the country and present it as an accomplice of these actions, which we categorically reject,” it emphasizes. In the document, reproduced in the official press, the Government dissociates itself from all the information that has increased recently about an alleged collaboration with Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. In addition, it says that Cuba has always been actively against mercenarism and that its position is firm and clear, as demonstrated by the “initiatives that are approved” at the United Nations. The report emphasizes that “Cuba is not part of the military conflict in Ukraine” and acts “strongly against those who, from the national territory, participate in any form of human trafficking for recruitment purposes” The report emphasizes that “Cuba is not part of the military conflict in Ukraine” and acts “strongly against those who, from the national territory, participate in any form of human trafficking for the purpose of recruitment or mercenarism so that Cuban citizens make use of weapons against any country.” “Attempts of this nature have been neutralized and criminal proceedings have been initiated against people involved in these activities,” the report indicates without giving further details.

(YouTube)ġ4ymedio, Havana, 5 September 2023 - Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Monday the dismantling of a human trafficking network based in Russia that recruited Cubans residing in that country and on the Island to join as mercenaries in the war in Ukraine, which the report calls a “war operation.” The information comes after weeks of speculation about an alleged recruitment sponsored by the regime to send young Cubans to fight for Russia. Their hope is to be able to apply for asylum so they can stay in the United States.Young Cubans in Ukraine hired by Russia, according to the ’influencer’ Alain Pararazzi Cubano. Sanabria said she will do so in September. They are supposed to meet with immigration authorities. Border Patrol agents processed migrants like Lambert and Sanabria by collecting biometrics to search databases for criminal records. “The youth no longer believes in that dictatorship,” Lambert said in Spanish. He visited Versailles on Tuesday in Miami’s Little Havana. Lambert recently reported that he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border through the Río Bravo and flew to South Florida with his daughter, wife, and brother. (Coast Guard)Īlain Lambert, better known on social media as the Paparazzi Cubano, is among the Cuban migrants who have fled through Central America after participating in the Jprotests that prompted a new wave of much younger political prisoners. The Cuban migrants were repatriated on Aug. “It’s the biggest, most intense out-migration for sure,” Bustamante said about the comparative data on Cuban immigration since 1959.Ī good Samaritan notified Sector Key West watchstanders of this rustic vessel about 5 miles south of Key Colony Beach, Florida, Aug. Michael Bustamante, a historian at the University of Miami, and Andy Gomez, an expert on post-Fidel Castro Cuba, said there is an ongoing immigration crisis that is going largely ignored. “That’s an indicator of the desperation.” “In the roughness of the seas with no active fuel pump, a good possibility the engine would bog down and run out,” the agent said.

It was horrible because it was dark and the weather wasn’t good,” Sanabria said adding, “If somebody told me it be like this, I don’t come here.”Īn agent inspected the boat called the “Triunfador” - roughly translated as “The Winner” - after the migrants made landfall. The perilous voyage ended near Sombrero Beach in Marathon, when they made landfall last Thursday. On the six-day voyage, the group had to bail out water from the boat, which was equipped with a forklift motor. Sanabria said she was forced to leave her 2-year-old daughter behind in Cuba. They survived on lobster and giant rats cooked as dinner before pushing off into open water. She said the she and others hid in the wilderness near Matanzas, a city on the northern shore of the island, to finish the vessel. Yuri Sanabria said she was part of a group of 19 that used hand saws and pieces of reclaimed wood to build a boat they would use to escape.

MIAMI – More and more people from Cuba and Haiti are risking their lives at sea to get to the United States.

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