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Cubans blocked in Panama demand passage to US
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cubans-blocked-panama-demand-passage-us-214647879.htmlPaso Canoas (Panama) (AFP) - Thousands of Cubans stranded in Panama, many increasingly desperate and penniless, demanded Thursday that borders closed to them in Central America be reopened to allow them to reach the United States.
A growing mass of around 3,000 Cubans on the Panama-Costa Rica border risk triggering another regional migration crisis, weeks after 8,000 compatriots were cleared out of Costa Rica on special flights to El Salvador or Mexico in what officials insisted was a one-off operation.
Nicaragua and Costa Rica have since late last year closed their frontiers to any more Cubans.
But citizens of the Communist island keep coming, lured by America's Cold War-era policy of guaranteeing them easy entry and a fast-track to residency.
