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Cuban migrants protest at Costa Rica-Panama border

Xinhua, April 15, 2016 Adjust font size:

A group of around 100 Cuban migrants stranded in Panama organized a protest on Thursday near the country's border with Costa Rica, demanding permission to let them continue their north-bound voyage towards the United States.

According to Panama's daily newspaper La Nacion, the protest happened outside the Paso Canoas border crossing, where Costa Rican police cordoned off the area to stop the migrants from getting through.

The Cuban protestors said that they represented 3,000 migrants who are stuck in Panama for not having the right to continue their northward journey that will take them through Central America and Mexico to the United States.

They said the treatment they got was unfair since thousands of Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica had been airlifted to Mexico and allowed to travel to the American border this year.

According to the Costa Rican Ministry of Security, the country's order has been restored and the situation at the border crossings at Paso Canoas has returned to normal.

The protest came a day after 1,200 Cuban and African migrants entered the Costa Rican territory violently, although most of them were taken under control by police and sent back to Panama. Endi