The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba (Minrex) announced this Friday, April 19, that they would start step number one of the plan to save Cuban citizens. who has been missing in Haiti since the end of February due to the violence in the country.
According to an official statement, the solution reached was to return the citizens from Cap Haitien airport, in the north of the country, since Port-au-Prince airport continued to be unable to carry out air operations.
This area of Haiti has managed to keep the situation of violence under control, making it possible to make flights to other parts of the world.
To do this, the Cubans had to be transferred by bus from the capital to the north of the country.
“Today, the first phase of the return operation for relatives lost in Haiti, who travel in a bus caravan from Port-au-Prince to the city of Cap-Haïtien, began in the north of the country,” said the Minrex letter.
Today, the first phase of the return operation for 🇨🇺 nationals lost in Haiti began, who travel in a bus caravan from Port-au-Prince to the city of Cap Haitien in the north of the country .
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– Chancellor of Cuba (@CubaMINREX) 19/4/2024
After more than 200 Cubans lost in Haiti traveled to the north of the country, a plane at Sunrise will be responsible for their return to the Greater Antilles.
“This is an operation coordinated by the Cuban Authorities, various Ministries, the Cuban embassy in Haiti and permanently joined by officials from our Diplomatic Mission,” said the Minrex.
In this regard, Castro’s Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, said that the Cuban authorities are closely monitoring the first phase of the plan, “coordinated work with Cuban diplomats.”
While the news of this operation undoubtedly comes as a relief to the hundreds of Cubans who were stranded in Haiti, some netizens could not help but criticize Castro’s authorities to take almost two months to carry out this rescue.
It was time to abandon more than 250 Cubans for 40 days to their fate in the middle of a bloody civil war.
You have taken 40 DAYS to evacuate them, and every country did that from the first moment the violence started.
Don’t paint yourself as a hero now…— Taoro (@Taoro8) 19/4/2024
For weeks now, Cubans have taken to social networks to denounce their situationindicating that they had been caught in Haiti after traveling to buy goods abroad, a common practice to deal with the marked shortages in Cuba.
They indicated that they were worried about their lives, because the violence in the Haitian area was something they were not used to.
“We are very afraid because we are not used to this, we always hear gunshots, we always have to go out into the streets to look for water and food, and our resources are limited run out already,” some denied in videos shared recently. months.
