U.S.-bound Cubans finally fly out of Costa Rica
Source: Digitial Journal
By Carlos Mario Marquez, with Marco Sibaja in Liberia, Costa Rica (AFP) 3 hours ago in World
A group of 180 Cuban migrants flew out of Costa Rica and arrived in El Salvador in a trial plan designed to blaze a path for thousands of stranded compatriots to follow.If their plane-and-bus trip is successful, other flights will follow as early as next week, transporting more of the 7,600 other Cubans stranded in Costa Rica
The Cubans are ultimately bound for the United States, which has a longstanding policy of accepting them, in what they hope will be the successful conclusion to a months-long odyssey through South and Central America.
If their plane-and-bus trip is successful, other flights will follow as early as next week, transporting more of the 7,600 other Cubans stranded in Costa Rica."I still can't believe it. We could be arriving and I still won't believe it," said Liana Cabezas Gonzalez, a 28-year-old interpreter who left Havana seven months ago aiming to join her parents already in Miami. She and the others paid $555 for the trip to Mexico's border. The governments involved insisted the migrants bear the entire cost of their trip.
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