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El Salvador imposed a $1,000 airport tariff fee on travelers from India and Africa this week in an effort to curb the use of the Central American nation as a bridge destination for nationals from those areas seeking to illegally migrate to the United States.
“El Salvador, due to its strategic position, is a HUB for one of the most important airlines in the region, with direct connections to more than 30 destinations in 14 countries,” CEPA’s statement reads.to pay a mandatory $1,000 in “Airport Improvement Fees” — plus an additional 13 percent in taxes — to travel to El Salvador. CEPA has also instructed airlines to issue daily detailed reports on passengers from the countries affected by the measure.
From El Salvador, the migrants take a flight to Managua, Nicaragua, where they continue their route north to the United States. Nicaragua does not have any sort of visa requirement for African and Indian nationals.to exiled Nicaraguan journalist Miguel Mendoza, in the past eight to nine months, 70 percent of passengers on inbound flights to Managua from El Salvador were African nationals.
“Faced with such a large mobility of people in a context where this year there are 2.5 million migrants, Nicaragua is facilitating almost 10 percent of that migration in exchange for remuneration, but also seeks to increase the huge problem that migration represents,” Orozco said on Tuesday.
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