Seeking Dialogue with U.S., Cuba Is Snubbed

130 people were deported to Cuba from the U.S. last week in the fifth deportation flight since the beginning of the year, according to Cuba's Interior Ministry.

Cuba has continued to receive deportation flights in line with its bilateral agreement with the United States, even though the Trump administration has abandoned the migration talks with Cuban authorities that had occurred regularly under Biden.

In an interview with Politico, Cuban diplomat Johana Tablada said that Marco Rubio’s State Department “is not interested in having conversations with Cuba,” and that she and Deputy Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernández de Cossío were snubbed by U.S. officials when they visited Washington.

Tablada said Rubio and others are trying to “blow up” bilateral relations.

Hundreds of thousands of Cubans have arrived in the U.S. over the past five years, fleeing an economic crisis driven by "maximum pressure" sanctions in place since the first Trump administration. Many of them are now at risk of deportation following Trump’s revocation of their legal status.

Check out our interview with Heidy Sánchez, the mother who was separated from her infant daughter and deported to Cuba last month.