The Cuban government initiated an evacuation operation of 254 Cuban nationals from Haiti on Friday, April 19, 2024. The Cuban Foreign Ministry made the announcement on social media. "Today marks the beginning of the first phase of the operation to repatriate our compatriots stranded in Haiti, who are traveling in a convoy of buses from Port-au-Prince to the city of Cap-Haïtien in the north of the country," the Cuban Foreign Ministry stated on the X social network.
The post was accompanied by photos of several buses,