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US Ambassador Calls For Humanitarian Solution To Cuban Refugee Crisis
posted (December 11, 2015)
Where do we go? What do we do? These are the questions that the over 4,000 Cubans stuck at the Costa Rican border with Nicaragua are desperately seeking the answers to. As we told you, the President of Costa Rica has asked Belize to assist with these Cubans. His proposal was for the migrants to be flown to Belize then to Mexico. But the Government of Belize refused and proposed a vague "regional discussion to come up with a solution." Well, while the Government waits for that regional arrangement to take shape - the stateless Cubans are suffering. They want to go to the US which has a policy of welcoming Cubans. When we asked US Ambassador Carlos Moreno about this, some humanitarian effort must be made.

Carlos Moreno, US Ambassador
"This is something initially really concerns the entire region and I'm hopeful, I would encourage a regional solution particularly of the involved countries. The United States is obviously concerned about more unauthorized migrants coming to the northern border of Mexico and coming into the United States. But I think that the nest approach right now is to look immediately at the situation on the Costa Rican/Nicaraguan border and also on the Panama/Costa Rican border and provide some kind of humanitarian assistance to those migrants. That may involve tightening the flow from Ecuador in cooperation with Cuba. But it something certainly that needs to be address."

The cabinet will meet and decide on this proposal in January.

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