Minister of the Interior of Chile, Carolina Tojaconfirmed this Wednesday that six Cubans asked for asylum in Chileafter it became known that seven athletes from the island left the Pan American Village on their own, after closing XIX Pan American Games Santiago 2023 Last Sunday.
He noted:
We know that five people have applied for asylum this morning following our press briefing. We cannot say who they are, because this process has a fallback characteristic, nor the merits of the request, because for this the process must be analyzed, but once the request is made, it enters into this analysis procedure.
According to what the agency has learned EFEthe group of these requests will belong to island athleteswhich are represented Law firm “Hurtado and Bonito”. They appeared before Department of Refugees and Resettlement of the National Migration Service of Chile.
According to a law firm representative, they will seven Cuban athletes those who are advised. Cuban-born lawyer Michael Bonitoformer advisor to the former president Sebastian Pinera on immigration issues, offered local media more detailed information about Who will these athletes be?.
He explained To Radio Biobio:
Today, a group of athletes from the Cuban national team of the same specialty turned to us for support to remain in Chile after running away from their delegation last Saturday. Taking into account the above, we have decided to undertake free legal representation of these athletes.
Carolina Toja I ordered on Wednesday morning There is no point in speculating on the situation of the seven Cuban athletes. and confirmed that only one person from the delegation contacted the authorities ask for asylum.
He assured:
Athletes can easily stay in Chile while engaging in tourism. We don’t know his whereabouts today. Only one person, but not part of the group that we were talking about, applied for asylum, and in this case the following happens: there is a procedure for studying the case, checking the admissibility of the request and while this research is being carried out.
The minister explained that once this process begins, “special permission given (eight months) while the study is being conducted.” He did not provide details about who made the request or where.
He warned that before making a conclusion, you need to wait until the visa expires in order to be able to know.”Whether they left the country on time or not. But since we have not reached that date yet, we cannot reschedule it,” he said.
According to Cuban journalistic sources, athletes who separated from the official Cuban delegation will be six women’s field hockey team players –Junia Milanes, Jennifer Martinez, Yakira Guillen, Lismari Gonzalez, Elec Carta And Geidy Morales– and bronze medalist in the 400-meter hurdles, Yoao Illas.
(according to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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