The movement of Cuban migrants through airports in search of a departure to Nicaragua, where visas are not required, is the “daily bread” in these facilities. Cubans pay thousands of dollars for a one-way ticket to get from there to the southern border of the United States.
They fly to “Augusto Sandino” International Airport in Managua on flights operated by Aruba Airlines and Conviasa, both with Venezuelan capital. There they meet the contacts they have already made on the island and prepare to pay for a trip that has already cost many their lives.
How much do you pay from Managua airport to the Honduran border to continue the route? A recent report in the Nicaraguan press denouncing the arrival of twenty flights from the Caribbean to Nicaragua carrying hundreds of thousands of migrants per day spoke of these prices.
How much do you charge from Nicaragua to the Honduras border?
According to the newspaper La Prensa, the country receives a large number of immigrants every day. Between 10 and 20 planes from Port-au-Prince, Haiti land at Augusto C. Sandino International Airport every day. Providenciales; Havana, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
The immigrants are trying to reach Nicaragua’s northern border to enter Honduras illegally. Some You pay $50 per person With public transport that takes you directly, others take local buses to areas near the border, so it’s cheaper.
A transit point for many migrants seeking to reach the United States is Condega, a city in Nicaragua that is 40 miles (66 km) from the Honduras border. There, travelers of various nationalities traveling in special buses take the opportunity to stock up on food and water.
At the beginning of October, a report by the French agency AFP spoke of more than 400,000 migrants arriving in Honduras from Nicaragua in 2023, more than twice as many as in the previous year. But Nicaragua continues to take no action in this regard.
By bus, depending on the departure point, it is more than 200 kilometers to reach Las Manos on the border with Honduras, and thousands pass through every day. Traveling through Nicaragua by buses takes about 20 hours, others pay that $50 to go more direct and faster.