The US replies that, when you need to contact Havana, it will do so

«When the United States needs to meet with the Cuban government, we do it,» the State Department replied in an email sent to Martí News, after the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Carlos Fernández de Cossío complains that there are no contacts between Washington and Havana, on the issue of deportations.

This same week, the Vice Chancellor had told the Reuters news agency that the Trump administration has not yet addressed the issue of immigration or any possible increase in deportations with authorities of the Cuban regime.

«There has been no request for that nature from the United States government,» said Cossío. «We haven’t even sat down to argue even if that would be a possibility.»

The Cuban official referred in the interview with the migratory agreements in force between the two countries, which contemplate receiving Cubans deported from the United States by air and maritime.

Two of these repatriation flights have landed in Havana since January, the official said, emphasizing that the majority have less than 100 deportees.

The Deputy Minister said that the large -scale deportations of Cubans initially admitted legally in the United States were never contemplated in the migratory agreements: «When the agreements were made, the possibility that the United States admitted to people and then stopped admitting them was not considered something reasonable. So anything (like this) would have to be discussed,» he added.

The State Department took decisive measures to terminate important policy changes on Cuba, which had been decreed by the outgoing administration biden on January 14.

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, in a statement held the decision of President Donald Trump to keep Cuba in the list of sponsoring states of terrorism and announced the update of the restricted list of Cuba.

«We remain firm in our commitment to the Cuban people and promote accountability for the actions of the Cuban regime,» Rubio said.