Migratory things (I)
Understanding the Cuban migratory process in its historical chain requires reviewing its stages, all marked by political events.
New migratory wave of Cubans to United States
In February of this year alone, 16,657 people of Cuban origin arrived in the United States and, in their vast...
Cubans in Russia, also “trapped” by the war
Eight months ago, Elkis left her native Bauta, in the province of Artemis, and arrived in Moscow with all her...
Migrants: between successes and failures, love and family
As I write these lines, I think of the impiety, the distances, the challenges, the heavy burdens that are placed...
Cubans can continue entering the island with an expired passport and debate the Family Code from abroad
Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, MINREX general director of consular affairs and attention to Cubans residing abroad, reported that a group of...
Cuba extends until June exception of tariff payment on import of food, hygiene items and medicine
The measure was decreed by a Ministry of Finance and Prices resolution last July and its validity expired on December...
Authorities clarify rumors about Cuban passport
The Department of Identification, Immigration and Aliens of the Ministry of the Interior warns that rumors that the passport “will...
Cuba maintains automatic extension of passport for residents abroad
Cuban citizens residing on the island who have been unable to return due to the pandemic, may exceptionally return with...
12 Cubans implicated in migrant smuggling network arrested in Uruguay
During the investigation conducted by the Department for the Fight Against Organized Crime and Interpol, 34 people of Cuban nationality...
Mexico returns 89 Cuban irregular migrants to the island
The general director of Consular Affairs and Cuban Residents Abroad, Ernesto Soberón, explained in his Twitter account that these people...
What and how does Cuban legislation regulate entry into the country?
Interview with the constitutionalist Harold Bertot Triana.
Number of Cuban rafters trying to reach Florida grows
The number of Cuban rafters who try to reach the coasts of Florida in fragile boats continues to increase and...
Cubans in Stewart: from limbo to hell
Day after day, Oveida Hurtado, 64, lights a candle for her late mother in her apartment in the Vista Hermosa...
Payment suspended for extension of Cubans’ stay abroad
The Cuban Foreign Ministry announced that “the possibility is extended for our nationals to return to the country without having...
Eleven Cubans detained on the northwest coast of Puerto Rico
Agents of the United States Border Patrol station, together with the Aguada Municipal Police, detained 11 Cuban citizens who arrived...
Cuban migrants deported by Mexico arrive in Havana
More than 50 Cuban migrants deported from Mexico arrived Friday in Havana, as part of the migratory agreements between both...
Thousands of Cubans stranded in Ciudad Juárez, on the Mexican-U.S. border
In an unprecedented phenomenon in Mexico, the border city of Ciudad Juárez is welcoming thousands of Cuban migrants waiting to...
Díaz-Canel: Cuba must bring its emigres closer and avoid isolation
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said that Cuba should avoid international isolation and bring closer increasingly more Cuban emigres with a...
The Cuba novel
Sometimes I think I left. But I have not left. At least not completely. I have stayed, at times entirely....
Cubans can now travel to Russia for 90 days without a visa
Cuban citizens will be able to travel to Russia for a period of three months without having to apply for...
My parents of the others
I thought - and at some time said – that the story about Cuba’s migration drama was an exaggeration. That...
Cubans’ exits abroad have doubled
A total of 723,844 trips by Cubans to other countries were reported in 2016, a figure that doubled the number...
Panama about to repatriate last Cuban migrants
The Panamanian government is coordinating the exit of the last 95 Cuban migrants stranded in that country after the end...
The 8,000-mile and 48-day photo
On May 13, 2016, Marta Amaro, 52, and Liset Barrios, 24, had left Havana. They had 13 countries, 10 illegal...
“No Cuban migrants” in April, says Coast Guard
April 2017 is a historic month for Cuban emigration. For the first time in seven years the U.S. Coast Guard...
