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Caribbean & Central America - September 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)
CUBA: Exodus
On 5 September nine of eleven Cuban migrants expected to take up humanitarian asylum in Panama arrived in the country from the Bahamas, where for over eight months they had been held and allegedly mistreated at a notorious immigrant detention centre. This prompted a virulent response against the government of The Bahamas by leading US Republicans and Cuban-American representatives. The case has spotlighted the plight of Cuban migrants, which almost three decades after the ‘balseros’ (rafters) crisis of 1993-1994 continue to risk their personal safety each year in an effort to reach the US. As we went to press, it was being reported that two had drowned (and 23 rescued) off the coast of Cuba. The Cuban government has long blamed the US ‘wet-foot, dry-foot’ policy for this situation, whereby Cuban migrants detained at sea are returned to Cuba but those arriving at a US land border are permitted entry and subsequently given leave to remain. The hope is that the newly restarted US-Cuba migration talks will seek a resolution to this issue.
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