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Santo Domingo.– A total of 96 illegal Dominican boatpeople who set out on November 13, 2008, for Puerto Rico, are being forced to work in sugarcane plantations in Cuba, family members said.
According to Eriko Cuba, spokesman for the migrants’ relatives, the group left on a “yola” from the coast of the northeastern town of Samana but was forced to land in Cuba due to rough weather while crossing the Mona Passage, which separates the Dominican Republic from Puerto Rico.
Eriko said that on Tuesday Wellington Mayobanex Aquino Suarez –one of the illegal migrants– telephoned police in the Dominican town of Villa Riva, where most of the group is from, so officers could inform their relatives of their situation.
The spokesman said that based on the information he has received some of the undocumented migrants –officially listed as missing by Dominican authorities– were carrying weapons and drugs and that could explain why they were detained on the neighboring island.