2023-10-22 14:26:33
August Cesar Sandino Terminal, Nicaragua
By EFE Date: 10/22/2023
Managua’s “Augusto C. Sandino” international airport has received 28 commercial flights loaded with passengers from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the last 48 hours, the local press reported this Saturday.
The Article 66 portal, which cites the official flight arrival schedule of the state-owned International Airport Management Company (EAAI) of Nicaragua, details that on Friday 12 flights from Port-au-Prince landed at the Nicaraguan air terminal, and 16 this Saturday.
Nicaraguan authorities have not announced whether they have opened a new air route between Port-au-Prince and Managua.
FIRST FLIGHT
The first plane to arrive in Nicaragua on Friday from Haiti was Sunrise airline flight S6-236, which landed at 11:56 a.m. (17:56 GMT). The second was Sarpa airline flight HK-5331.
The airlines in charge of carrying out commercial flights from Haiti to Nicaragua are AirCentury, Atlantic, Magni, Sarpa Searca, Sky High, and Sunrise. They do it without this route officially existing.
In addition to flights from Port-au-Prince, the official EAAI schedule records flights from the Caribbean island Providenciales, from the Turks and Caicos archipelago, which also does not have an open route with Managua.
For its part, the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa indicated that “there continues to be a massive arrival of Haitians and Africans who use Nicaragua as a springboard for their trip to the United States.”
BETWEEN 10 AND 20 FLIGHTS DAILY
According to that medium, between 10 and 20 daily flights land at the Managua international airport daily, with a capacity of between 50 and 200 passengers and which generally transport citizens of Haiti, Providenciales, the Dominican Republic and Cuba, and African countries.
La Prensa detailed that this Saturday, 15 flights from Port-au-Prince, 3 from the Dominican Republic, 2 from Cuba, and 2 from Providenciales Island were scheduled to enter Nicaragua.
Last Thursday, the Government of Nicaragua pointed to a “campaign of misleading propaganda and distorted messages regarding the economic benefits and dreams of a supposed better life, the so-called ‘American dream’ in the United States” which encourages irregular migration to the North American country.
CHANCELLERY WARNED ABOUT IRREGULAR MIGRATION FLOW
In the document, the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry warned that this incentive for irregular migratory flow threatens “the very lives of migrants and the safety of transit communities, encouraging the actions of organized crime.”
In that text, titled “Nicaragua’s Position for the Preparation of a Plan for Attention to Migratory Flows”, the Nicaraguan Executive indicated that there are structural causes of an economic, social and cultural order that directly or indirectly encourage migration, for which it urged address these causes “in a comprehensive manner for better attention to the migration phenomenon.”
This Saturday, eight opposition organizations in Nicaragua accused Daniel Ortega’s government of facilitating and “doing business” with irregular migration that arrives in the Central American country on its journey to the United States.
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