SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 28 of August (Lisette Bravo/APLO) a great expectation by a possible massive exodus is latent in the santiaguera population. The political uncertainty in the country, with the health of Fidel Castro as state secret and the recent information of a happy end of the refugees in Naval Base of Guantánamo has exacerbated the feelings of escape of the Cuban town, therefore is appraised in Santiago of Cuba, where people say: “this time if they abren, nobody takes to me here�

 

The forced commentary, mainly between the young people, turns around how leaving the country. The news of each act or migratory attempt runs like powder. The past 17 of August were robbed a rustic boat in the santiaguera bay, in the well-known zone like the Cangrejitos. The proprietors of the same, two fishermen of the place were gaged and with hands tied to a small bridge, while presumed the emigrant started off with unknown course.

 

The past Friday 24 of August, four men were intercepted by a boat of the Opposite Service of Guard, cradled tried to escape of the Island by the well-known zone like Mouth of Two Rivers, to about 35 km of the provincial capital, Santiago of Cuba, by the highway of Chivirico, that borders the Eastern South coast.

 

All this zone has be used repeatedly like route to escape towards Base Naval of Guantánamo, before practice came to give back to people towards Cuba, but with last event in that territory with jurisdiction North American, where the visa use was clear to him that they were there and others were relocated in a third country, abre a new possibility of very tempting escape and to start off for the naval base of Guantánamo. In the first place it is not necessary to wait for the authorization of the Cuban government or unlimited power, is not needed to secure money in the outside to pay the expenses of exit and really any time there in better than to be in Cuba and they send in the end you for any side, therefore the people in the streets express themselves publicly.