The information published by the official agency Prensa Latina about the abolition of visas for Cubans in transit to the Dominican Republic was refuted by a diplomat of that country in a statement to 14ymedio. According to this source, the issue “is still being discussed in highly diplomatic circles between the Embassy of the Dominican Republic and the Cuban government.”
Prensa Latina claims to have had access to Resolution 09-2022 of the Dominican Republic’s Directorate General for Migration (DGM), signed on May 12 by its director Enrique García, according to which “Citizens of Cuban do not need any from the authorities of this country issued visa”. However, this decision does not appear on the DGM portal.
Two days ago, the Cuban Directory website published that the DGM assured them in a call that “Resolution number 6, which came into force on April 30, is the one that applies to the case of the Cuban Libra”.
An official at the Dominican consulate in Havana assured this newspaper that the visa was not required “technically, less than 12 hours”.
Hours later, however, an official at the Dominican consulate in Havana assured this newspaper that the visa was not required “technically, less than 12 hours”. The transit visa, he claimed, “is not granted.”
The conflicting information currently circulating seems to indicate a pulse between the two countries. The regime in Havana wants to remove obstacles to the massive migration of Cubans who fly to Santo Domingo, later on to Nicaragua, where they do not need a visa, and overland to the United States.
Instead, the Dominican Republic, along with Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia, is working with Washington to halt the inexorable exodus caused by the abolition of the Nicaragua visa agreed between Miguel Díaz-Canel and Daniel Ortega on November 30 .
In response to the migration crisis, Panama announced visa requirements for Cubans in March. This prompted hundreds of people to surround the embassy in Havana demanding a solution.
In mid-February, Copa announced a suspension of ticket sales to and from Cuba. The Panamanian airline operates six daily flights from Panama City to Havana and two weekly, Tuesdays and Thursdays, to Abel Santamaría International Airport in Santa Clara.
That same month, Costa Rica introduced an identical measure – although in this case it also affected Nicaraguans and Venezuelans – which also provoked strong opposition from Cubans who had already bought a ticket to San Jose.
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