Panama Reaches One-Time Deal to Send 3,800 US-Bound Cubans to Mexico Daily Mail
go to original May 9, 2016

Cubans Who Want to Be Americans Are Stranded in Panama (wochit News)

Panama has reached a deal to transfer nearly 4,000 US-bound Cubans stranded on its territory to Mexico, an official said on Sunday, but added the flights would not be extended to future Cuban migrants.

"Panama will transfer some 3,800 Cubans to Mexico after an agreement with that country," the Panamanian official told AFP on condition of anonymity because details were not to be released until Monday.

The official said daily flights would begin on Monday from Panama City's international airport, going to Juarez, in Mexico's north near the US border.

Each planeload would carry 154 Cubans who would pay the cost of the trip themselves.

They have been blocked in Panama since March.

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Related: Closed Central America Borders Won't Stop Us, Say Us-Bound Cubans (Agence France-Presse)

Related: Panama Closes Border with Colombia to Stem Migrant Flow (Reuters)

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