Through an official statement, the Cuban Foreign Ministry (Minrex) ruled on the situation in which There are more than 200 Cubans who are stranded in Haiti amid a wave of insecurity.
“Consular officials maintain close contact with the Association of Cubans in that country and take steps to guarantee the safe return of our compatriots,” reads the note signed by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.
.@EmbaCuba_Haiti addresses the current situation of Cuban residents and transit in Haiti.
Consular officials maintain close contact with the Association of Cubans in that country and take steps to guarantee the safe return of our compatriots.
— Bruno Rodriguez P (@BrunoRguezP) March 6, 2024
This official statement comes several days late, but coincides with the fact that the situation of the Cubans was denounced by several independent media.
And the more than 200 Cubans tried to get everyone’s attention on social networks, pointing out that they could not return to the Island because the services at the Port-au-Prince airport had been suspended until further notice.
Most of these Cubans were stranded after traveling to the neighboring country as tourists or to make purchases, while a few correspond to the husbands, teachers and engineers that the regime has sent to Haiti in recent months.
According to videos shared by the stranded Cubans, they are in rental houses, but their resources are being depleted with each passing day. Additionally, they claim that they are afraid to go out into the streets, where different armed gangs clash relatively frequently.
Many of these were stranded after a shooting occurred last week near the airport of the Haitian capital and some bullets managed to hit a Sunrise Airways airline plane.
Fortunately, none of the passengers were injured, but the airline decided not to take off. Likewise, it suspended all flights between Haiti and Havana that were scheduled for the following days.
“We couldn’t fly on our scheduled day. People who were going to Havana checked in and couldn’t get on the plane, we who are from Camagüey were sent home. All flights have been cancelled, no one takes responsibility for our situation while our families are desperate, we are afraid because we have never been in a situation like this,” declared one of these Antilleans in a video shared on TikTok.
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