Nearly 250 Cubans who were carrying out “shopping tourism” are stranded in Port-au-Prince after the state of emergency decreed in the capital of Haiti
around 250 Cubans who had traveled to shop Haiti They are stranded in Port-au-Prince, the capital of that country, after the takeover of a part of the city by gangs, according to the airline Sunrise Airways.
Since Thursday, February 29, the Haitian capital has been going through a series of coordinated attacks on certain strategic locations in the city by gangs, including the Toussaint Louverture international airport, in search of overthrowing Ariel Henryprime minister of the country.
In response to this, the Haitian government decreed last Sunday the state of emergency and night curfew. This decision upset more than 200 Cubans who travel to Haiti regularly to buy clothing, footwear and household items, either for their own consumption or to resell in their country. These are called “shopping tourists” and are a big part of the Hippolyte market, located in the center of Port-au-Prince.
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The situation of those stranded in Port-au-Prince
The airline acknowledges that it cannot give a date when flights will resume and detailed that the border with the Dominican Republic is also closed.
A 34-year-old Cuban woman who works independently revealed to AFP anonymously that she has been stranded since February 29 in a hostel in Port-au-Prince. “When we were about to get on the plane they realized that she had been shot and that she couldn’t travel,” she explained.
“This was unforeseen, no one expected it. What we had we spent at the airport on bread. We have no money and we are left without resources,” the woman added. She is currently with 16 other Cubans at Rosalinda’s Hostel in Delmas, a neighborhood of the capital, surviving with what they have left of money. Among these people are hypertensive patients and diabetics who lack access to the corresponding medications.
Source: Ambito
