14ymedio/EFE, Havana, 15 October 2023 — Mexico resumed, this Saturday, the deportation flights of Cubans with the return by air of 138 people who illegally entered the Aztec country. The return came a day after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed the meeting with 10 leaders, including Miguel Díaz-Canel, on October 22, in Palenque (Chiapas) to define a strategy to stop the migratory flow.
The last week of September, U.S. media reported a meeting in Ciudad Juárez between the National Institute of Migration (INM) and the United States, where it determined to “deport” migrants who are in the cities bordering El Paso, San Diego and Eagle Pass.
“We are supporting people, trying to order the flow of people.” However, a government source told 14ymedio that “there are regions such as Tapachula (Chiapas) and the border with the U.S., which urgently need to be addressed, after insisting that migrants will not be deported. Two weeks later, deportation flights between Mexico and Cuba resumed.
In a statement this Saturday, the Ministry of the Interior of Cuba detailed the arrival on the Island of 95 men and 43 women on a Viva Aerobus flight that arrived at the José M
