Struggling with the largest influx of migrants from Cuba in decades, the United States resumed all visa services at its embassy in Havana on Wednesday.
Six Cuban migrants were stuck in the middle of the ocean after their makeshift raft veered off course in the Gulf of Mexico. Luckily, the Carnival Paradise cruise ship was nearby.
Honoring its reputation as a cultural institution and historical landmark, the legendary Cuban restaurant Versailles is celebrating its 50th anniversary, opening its massive public archive that celebrates Cuban heritage and Miami History.
After an agreement has been reached by Central American leaders, thousands of Cuban migrants are finally moving into the United States after being stranded in Costa Rica for three months.
Compared to other Hispanics that arrive at the U.S. border from Central America or Mexica, Cubans reportedly get preferential status and are treated as political refugees.
It has been three months since Cuban migrants in the Costa Rica border, who are trying to find greener pastures in the U.S., have finally been flown to El Salvador. Reports say that the first group, which consists of 180 migrants from Central America, will also be traveling by bus to Guatemala.
Inundated with thousands of Cuban migrants trying to make their ways to the United States, Central American nations have agreed upon a program which will allow Cubans stranded in Costa Rica to reach their U.S destination.
Pope Francis has called on Central American nations Costa Rica and Nicaragua to resolve the Cuban migration problems in the region. Thousands of Cubans are stranded in the border of the two countries after Nicaragua refused the migrants to pass their territory.
Unable to re-enter the country they were trying to escape, 38 Cuban migrants who had intended to sail to the U.S. remain aboard a U.S. Coast Guard vessel where they wait to see if and when they will be allowed back on Cuban soil.
