Booming Migrant Charter Flights To Nicaragua Prompt US Crackdown – By Leticia Pineda and Eva Rodriguez (IB Times) / Nov 24, 2023
Cuban and Haitian migrants are increasingly taking chartered flights to Nicaragua from where they seek to travel overland to the United States, prompting Washington to impose sanctions this week on the operators of the aircraft.
Irma Perez, a 28-year-old Cuban, told AFP she arrived in the Nicaraguan capital Managua last month aboard a charter flight run by Mexican aviation firm Viva Aerobus.
“We had a 45-minute layover in Cancun (Mexico) without disembarking, and then came to Managua,” she said.
Perez was speaking from Mexico, after she, her husband and one-year-old son traveled there overland with the help of a people-smuggler. The family plans to head towards the United States.
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