Cuba has said that the migrants are not political exiles because they left the island legally and they are not being persecuted.
“Without that visa they will kill us, they will swindle us and make us disappear; we are victims of human trafficking,” Sánchez says.
The Human Rights Committee of Orellana (CDHO), an Ecuadorian province located in the Amazon, has alerted authorities of this new migratory route.
In the wake of the humanitarian crisis that took place in Central America last year as a large influx of Cubans sought entry into the United States, the Ecuadorian government now requires a tourist visa that the average Cuban citizen cannot afford.
They were transferred to Quito but the migrant shelter in the capital did not have enough space for them.
Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/07/06/inenglish/1467812180_568384.html
