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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | August 2007 
83 Cubans Detained Off Mexican Coast
 Associated Press
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| | Family members and friends wave to a group of rafters heading to the U.S. in Havana. After a lull following Cuba's leader Fidel Castro's illness last year, Cubans once again are taking to homemade boats or powerful speedboats manned by smugglers on a trip to the United States that often includes a detour through Mexico. (Reuters) |
Playa del Carmen, Mexico - The Mexican navy detained 83 Cubans who were traveling in makeshift boats off the country's Caribbean coast and believed to be heading to the United States.
The navy said Thursday in a news release the migrants were traveling in four separate boats, one of which was adrift when it was found. They were handed over to immigration authorities. Cuban migrants are usually released from such centers after 90 days.
More than 9,000 Cuban migrants have arrived in the United States from Mexico since last October, as the route becomes increasingly more popular than crossing the Florida Straits.
Authorities say relatives in the U.S. relatives pay thousands of dollars to organized crime networks that take the migrants to Mexico, where they head north over land. |
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