Meeting in El Salvador on Cuban migrants ends in squabbling

Meeting in El Salvador on Cuban migrants ends in squabbling
Associated Press
By MARCOS ALEMAN
24 minutes ago

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A meeting between Central American officials and their counterparts from Ecuador, Colombia and Cuba broke down in squabbling Tuesday over how to deal with the problem of thousands of Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica. The migrants have started using on overland route to reach the United States by traveling to Ecuador, then through Central America and Mexico.

That has sparked tensions in Central America, with Nicaragua on Tuesday accusing its southern neighbor Costa Rica of "unleashing an invasion of illegal Cuban migrants" on it.

"Our governments do not have the resources to deal with this new threat to our national security," the Nicaraguan government said in a statement, suggesting that the wave could facilitate terrorism or migrants from other countries.

The statement also criticized the Cold-War era U.S. policies that allow the Cubans special status as migrants. Nicaragua's leftist government has warm ties with Cuba. .

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