English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Generation Y, 30 January 2023 — It was the early morning of January 23 when the raft, with 28 people on board, capsized on the north coast of the province of Matanzas, Cuba. At least five rafters died and another 12 are still missing. The tragedy, which once again puts the families … Continue reading “Cubans: Sponsor or Death, We Will Leave!”
14ymedio, Havana, 17 January 2022 — With the image of four rafters on some logs mounted on Styrofoam plates, the United States Coast Guard reported on Monday the repatriation of 82 people to the island on the ship Angela McShan. Cubans who are caught in an illegal attempt to reach Florida will be expelled and as … Continue reading “United States Repatriates Another 82 Cuban Rafters Who Will Not be Eligible for the New Permit”
14ymedio, Havana, January 6, 2022 — The Cuban balseros [rafters] who have managed to disembark in Florida, including the more than 300 in Dry Tortugas National Park and who were processed at the Border Patrol station, are receiving “an expeditious deportation order,” the verdict issued by a judge to expel a person but that can … Continue reading “Cuban Balseros Who Arrived in Florida Received a ‘Deportation Order’ That They Can Appeal”
“What’s for sale now are the belongings of local people who are leaving and can’t take everything with them” 14ymedio, Natalia López Moya, Havana, 18 April 2024 — Women’s purses, babies’ shoes and several small home appliances are piled up on one of the tables. “These items have just come in and I haven’t had … Continue reading “A Massive Exodus Leaves Cuba with an Abundance of Secondhand Clothes and Home Appliances”
EFE (via 14ymedio), Miami, 18 September 2023 — A hundred Cuban migrants demonstrated this Sunday in Miami (Florida) to ask for legal status to stay and work in the United States after a court ruling that limits the ways to obtain permanent residence. The protesters gathered in the central Versailles restaurant to ask the Secretary … Continue reading “A Hundred Cuban Migrants Ask for Legal Status in Miami To Be Able To Stay in the United States”
The monopoly’s revenues have plummeted from $807 million in 2020 to $128 million in 2022 14ymedio, Havana, 24 August 2023 — The poor quality of international telecommunication connections in Cuba is an ongoing source of customer frustration. What no one suspected until recently is that this is a deliberate strategy by the state telephone monopoly … Continue reading “Cuba’s State Telecommunications Monopoly Etecsa Sabotages Internet to Force Customers to Pay for Long-Distance Calls”
14ymedio, Havana, 5 April 2023 — The Humanitarian Parole established by the United States last January has not deterred Cubans from continuing to leave through irregular means, and dozens of them continue to try to reach the Florida coast. This is the case of two groups of at least 35 people who are missing, according to their … Continue reading “Relatives Ask for Help to Find 35 Rafters who Left Cuba in March”
14ymedio, Havana, 2 March 2023 — On one side of the Rio Grande, dozens of migrants set up an improvised camp from where they wait for a response to the request they made through the CBP One digital platform. Among them was Oilime Esquivel, who had arrived in the US only a few hours earlier when … Continue reading “‘We Young People Have to Leave the Deception That is Cuba,’ Says a Camagueyan Acccepted in the US”
14ymedio, Havana, 12 January 2023 — On January 5, Yanisey González managed to reach the United States. The American dream that he seemed to have achieved was cut short when the Border Patrol put him in a van along with migrants from Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guatemala to return them to the border with Mexico and deliver them … Continue reading “More than 200 Cubans Returned by the United States to Mexico are Taken to a Shelter in Hermosillo”
14ymedio, Madrid, 7 October 2022 — The United States has complied with the immigration commitment agreed on with Cuba for the first time since 2017, and has delivered more than 20,000 visas this fiscal year. According to figures from the State Department, as of August, Washington had issued 19,743 permits for immigrants from the Island, … Continue reading “For the First Time Since 2017, the United States Meets the Quota Of 20,000 Visas for Cubans”
Dimas Castellanos, Havana, 29 November 2021– “The U.S. government is following a script, seeking to portray Cuba as a failed state,” grumbled Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla on Wednesday, November 10, during his appearance before the accredited diplomatic corps in Cuba. Among the defining elements that characterize a failed state, those related to its economy are … Continue reading “Yes, Cuba is a Failed State / Dimas Castellanos”
14ymedio, Havana, 27 September 2019 — In New York this Thursday, a group of Cuban doctors denounced that the Government of Havana forced them to falsify the statistics of patients treated and destroy the leftover medicines that they had falsely prescribed (to non-existent patients) to fake the delivery of more healthcare than what was actually … Continue reading “Cuban Doctors Denounce Being Forced to Inflate Statistics”
14ymedio, Havana, 23 May 2019 — The Cuban-Spaniard Javier Larrondo, president of the organization Defenders of Cuban Prisoners, in partnership with Solidarity Without Borders and the Patriotic Union of Cuba, explained on Thursday at a press conference in Miami that a complaint against the Cuban government as been presented to multiple international organizations for “slavery, … Continue reading “Testimony of 110 Doctors Cuban Doctors on Foreign “Missions” Leads to Complaint Over Slavery”
14ymedio, Mario J. Pentón, Bogota, 28 February 2018 — When Dayana Suárez escaped from the medical mission in the Venezuelan state Lara, the United States’ Cuban Medical Professional Parole (CMPP) program, which was created in 2006 to provide refuge for healthcare professionals fleeing the missions entrusted by La Havana, did not already exist. Suárez is a … Continue reading “The U.S. No Longer Accepts Them But Cuban Doctors Continue To Flee From Venezuela”
14ymedio, Mario Penton, Miami, November 24, 2017 – The new immigration law which takes effect this Wednesday in Brazil could benefit hundreds of doctors who have escaped from the Mais Medicos (More Doctors) mission in this country. According to André De Santana Correa, a lawyer who represents 80 doctors from the Island who abandoned their … Continue reading “A Lawyer Sees Salvation in Brazil’s New Immigration Law for "Deserter" Doctors”
