RELATED TOPICS: Miami International Airport, UN Tourism Regional Commission for the Americas, Cuba, Levine Cava, Miami, Miguel Díaz-Canel, TSA
The five-hour visit by agents of the Cuban regime to the sensitive control areas of Miami International Airport has unleashed strong criticism. Apparently, the tour took place as part of a knowledge exchange between the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and its Cuban counterparts.
However, US officials have stated that “granting Cuba access to sensitive information is a practice reserved for representatives of allied countries,” a source told Diario de Las Américas.
Likewise, he stated that letting the agents of the Cuban dictatorship enter the facilities “is having let Castro’s spies enter the heart of Miami International Airport, one of the nation’s main transportation centers.”
The Cuban officials’ tour included “direct access to the new three-dimensional x-ray technology, among whose objectives is the identification of explosives to prevent terrorist groups from introducing them into the cabin of an airplane and other sensitive places,” the source indicated. to the same medium, as reported by Diario de Cuba.
For her part, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava commented that “the decision to allow Cuban officials to tour secure areas at the airport was made without the knowledge of the Miami-Dade Aviation Department and took place on Cuban Independence Day, a day in which we reaffirm our commitment to freedom and democracy in Cuba in the face of a brutal dictatorship,” said Levine Cava.
As reported REPORTUR.us, recently Miguel Díaz-Canel, president of Cuba, within the framework of the 69th Meeting of the Regional Commission for the Americas of UN Tourism, attributed the collapse of hotel occupancy on the island to the United States blockade, having vacancies near three out of four hotel rooms. (Cuba attributes its collapsed hotel occupancy to the US blockade).
However, Díaz-Canel highlighted that in the midst of the economic crisis they have allocated more than USD 24 billion in tourism investment in the last 15 years – especially in the construction of hotels to the detriment of sectors in crisis such as the electro-energy system, health, education and agriculture – but regretted that the vast majority of rooms on the island remain practically empty.
