A dire economic situation is still driving emigrants from Cuba through Central America even as the US embassy in Havana has reopened
or almost six years the US embassy in Havana has lain silent in the withering Caribbean sun. Tiles have fallen from its facade, the fence has rusted and the awning of the consular section has been shredded in the fierce winds off the Florida Straits.
The return of full consular services comes as Joe Biden tries to stem the latest migration crisis on the southern border of the US. The president has announced that 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela will be allowed to legally enter the country every month. Another blow came with the closure of the US embassy’s consular section after 26 officials reported falling ill after mysteriousThe Cuban government unambiguously denies any involvement in the alleged attacks, but the closure meant that Cubans wishing to apply for legal entry to the US had to go instead to Guyana on the north coast of South America.“Because of the pandemic there were few flights,” she said. “In the end we paid about $6,000 [to get her to Guyana].
Rosa Miriam Elizalde, vice-president the Cuban Union of Journalists, wrote last week in Mexico’s La Jornada that the US’s “maximum pressure” policy on Cuba had only led to “chaos” on its own border. “Instead of taking to the streets, 250,000 well-educated and well-resourced Cubans left the island to fulfil their dreams somewhere other than a bullied Caribbean island,” she wrote.
Amaro is one of those referred to by Alejandro Mayorkas, the US homeland security secretary, last week: “Immigration judges have a backlog of more than 1.7m cases, and we have more than 11 million undocumented people in our country, many of whom work in the shadows.”
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