Approximately 250 Cuban migrants will be flown to El Salvador initially, said Guatemalan Foreign Minister Carlos Morales. An estimated 8,000 Cubans are now stuck there. After the Nicaraguan government denied access to the migrants, they were forced to survive near the borders and providing shelter for them has badly stretched the resources of the country, said Costa Rica’s government, reported the Daily Mail.
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More than eight thousand Cubans have been stuck in Costa Rica since neighboring Nicaragua closed its border to them weeks ago.
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The Foreign Ministry stressed that the El Salvador option is only a temporary situation and “should not be construed as a precedent in the region”, is the report from Guatemala. “This solution is an absolutely exception and only available to those people who are legally in the country”, the minister was quoted as saying in the official statement.
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The program is due to begin during the first week in January, the governments of Guatemala and Mexico said, and may finally end the crisis which has left many migrants living in tents by the border.
It comes two days after Pope Francis called world attention to the plight of the Cubans stranded in Costa Rica. Many among the stranded said they were trying to reach the United States.
On Sunday His Holiness Pope Francis appealed to Central American governments to review with generosity all necessary efforts to find a rapid solution to this humanitarian drama. Subsequently, officials from Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Mexico, Costa Rica and the International Organization for Migration took part in the talks on Monday and reached the deal for the Cuban migrants.
Cuba did not attend the meeting, but said it expected “a quick and adequate solution” from the nations involved.
While the route has been popular for several years, flows suddenly increased during 2015 because of fears that improved diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba will soon lead to the revocation of the so-called “Wet-Foot, Dry-Foot” policy that allows Cubans who reach U.S. soil to remain.
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Those making the journey say that once they arrive in the USA they will be allowed to stay and apply for permanent residency.
