The boat had left on Friday from northwestern Haiti, according to one of its passengers quoted by the Miami Herald newspaper.
The US Border Patrol confirmed, for its part, on Twitter the arrival of “a large number of migrants” in Key Largo, about 110 km south of Miami, without specifying their nationality.
The number of people on board the sailboat varies depending on the source. For the Miami Herald, there were more than a hundred, while NBC Miami talks about 200.
The Florida Keys, an archipelago in the south of the state, have received hundreds of migrants in recent days, mostly Cubans.
Since Saturday at least 460 inhabitants of the Caribbean island landed in the archipelago, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office in the area, which described the current situation as “mass migration crisis”.
The arrival of about 300 of them at the Dry Tortugas National Park, in the Keys, led the authorities to close the space until further notice starting Monday.
Haiti, The poorest country in the Americas, has been plunged into an economic, political and security crisis for years, aggravated by the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021 and the growing weight of gangs.
Cuba, for its part, is experiencing its worst economic crisis since the 1990s. The shortage of food and medicine, as well as the lack of hope for the future, have caused hundreds of thousands of inhabitants to leave for the United States in the last year. An exodus considered the largest in the history of the island.
Source: Ambito
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