Cuba blames the U.S. for the rise in migration from the island to the U.S. and accuses the U.S. of excluding them from an upcoming regional summit.
, and accused the U.S. of excluding the island from the Summit of the Americas during a news conference Monday in Havana.
A State Department spokesperson said no invitations have been issued from the White House at this time. NBC News has asked the department for comment on the other other allegations Rodríguez made during the news conference. The news conference came after the U.S. and Cuba held migration talks in Washington, D.C., last week as the number of Cubans coming through the U.S.-Mexico border has soared. Nearlywere apprehended at the border between October and April, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Last week’s meeting amounted to the highest-level talks between the two countries in over four years. Rodríguez said the talks were a “positive sign.
The U.S. downsized the number of employees at the Havana embassy following mysterious health incidents, and it stopped processing visas there. Instead, Cubans have had to travel to Guyana or other countries to have visas processed, which is costly for the average Cuban. As a result, the U.S. has not issued the 20,000 annual migrant visas it committed to following the 1994 migrant accords. Rodríguez said this is one of the main causes for the spike in Cubans leaving the island for the U.S.
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