15 Undocumented Cubans Detained in Colombia

15 Undocumented Cubans Detained in Colombia / 14ymedio
Posted on December 8, 2015

14ymedio, 7 December 2015 – Ten Cuban citizens, between 22 and 38 years
old, were detained this Monday in the city of Saldaña, Colombia, in a
routine search of a bus on the Neiva-Medillín route, according to local
sources.

The foreigners, natives of Havana, Cuba, were identified as Yanelis
Pacheco Rodríguez, Raciel Hernández Santana, Adrián Rodríguez Blanco,
Adrián González Díaz, Manuel Antonio Pereira Clara, Luis Pimentel
Fernández, Adolfo José Yero Castro, Álvaro Leosbel Valdez Pacheco,
Geonnis Dupuy Betancourt and Vladimir Pupo Gómez.

The Cubans carried passports with entry stamps for the province of
Guayaquil, Ecuador and, according to the police who stopped them, did
not carry documents for traveling in a regular way through Colombia. The
migrants were taken to the Migration Department, and are waiting there
for a solution.

Another five Cubans were arrested on Monday at a checkpoint at the city
of Caldas, while travelling illegally on the Estrella-Manizales highway
to Medellín.

According to official figures, since the beginning of this year up to
the first week of December, more than 600 migrants had been intercepted
in Colombia without their paperwork in order, almost 500 of them of
Cuban nationality. The remainder of the immigrants were from China,
Venezuela, Bangladesh, India, Somalia, Pakistan, Nepal and Ghana.

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