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Panama drops off Cuban migrants on Costa Rica’s doorstep

The Tico Times - April 6, 2017

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Costa Rican government applauds U.S. decision to stop ‘wet foot, dry foot’ policy on Cuban migrants

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President Solís: ‘If you want to get through a border, you’ll be able to sooner or later’

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Panama to send 3,800 US-bound Cubans to Mexico

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Cubans bound for US inch closer, arrive in Guatemala

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In what they nervously hope will be the successful conclusion to a months-long odyssey through South and Central America, the first group of 180 Cubans left Costa Rica on Tuesday, landed in El Salvador and then made it further north to Guatemala by bus after traveling through the night.

Stranded Cuban migrants say goodbye to Costa Rica as airlift begins

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The latest wave of Cuban migration has drawn increased skepticism from some representatives to the 1966 law that grants them preferential status in the US.

After Central America slog, Cubans can expect US welcome

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A primer on how nearly 8,000 Cuban migrants became stranded in Costa Rica, why they're being flown to El Salvador and what awaits them if they make it to their destination, the United States.

Cuban migrant airlift from Costa Rica starts Jan. 12

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Cuban migrants will be flown to El Salvador on charter flights and then bussed to Mexico -- all at their own expense. From there, they must find their own transportation to the U.S. border.

US congress members in Costa Rica to assess Cuban migrant crisis

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A member of the U.S. House of Representatives arrived in Costa Rica on Tuesday to assess the Cuban migrant crisis, while a New Jersey mayor said he would put up a six-figure sum to help the migrants pay their way north.

Central American countries agree to safe passage for Cuban migrants marooned in Costa Rica

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After more than a month at loggerheads over what to do with Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica en route to the U.S., Central American countries finally reached an agreement to allow them safe passage.

Costa Rica’s Solís bails on Central America summit over Cuban migrant standoff

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A summit of Central American leaders in El Salvador on Friday failed to break a regional impasse over the fate of 5,000 U.S.-bound Cuban migrants blocked in Costa Rica for weeks. Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís left the summit before its close without making a promised speech on the issue.

Desperate Cubans mass at Nicaragua’s closed border

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LA CRUZ, Guanacaste – Cuban migrants aiming for a new life in the United States but stranded in Costa Rica by a Nicaragua border firmly closed to them expressed mounting anger and desperation on Thursday.

Cuban migration in Central America in limbo after Nicaragua refuses to budge

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Nearly 3,000 Cuban migrants in Costa Rica still have no way to legally reach the United States after an emergency meeting of Central American foreign ministers in San Salvador ended Tuesday without an agreement.