During the last few weeks some of our fellow nationals have been facing difficulties when attempting to travel to countries of our region under the new requirement of obtaining a visa to visit to or travel in transit through some of them. This is a complex situation that is being closely followed by the Cuban government and has multiple causes.
Since 2017, the government of the United States has unilaterally and unwarrantedly failed to comply with the commitment entered into in 1994 of guaranteeing a legal migration to that country for a minimum of 20 000 Cubans every year. As that country decided to cancel the immigrant visa services offered by its embassy in Cuba as from October, 2017, the few thousand Cubans that the US authorities have admitted every year since then, are now forced to travel to Guyana to complete these procedures, without any guarantee that they will be granted a visa and with the consequent cost and burden this entails for every potential migrant.
As is well known, throughout all these years, the government of the United States has fully enforced – and significantly reinforced- the economic blockade aimed at breaking our economy, reducing the living standards of Cubans, provoking scarcities and damaging the level of consumption and the services the Cuban people depend on. This is a policy that was strengthened during the most critical moments of the struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic, which also coincided with the negative impact the pandemic had on the world’s economy.
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