Para arribar a este país y obtener la ciudadanía miles de cubanos buscan contactos con ecuatorianos o coterráneos naturalized. They will provide letters of invitation. Pay up to USD 2 000 to leave the island and in Ecuador, $ 200 for each letter. There is still no effective control.
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Editorial Policy are sitting, waiting on the benches outside the mall Caracol. Jesus V. and a friend (former member of a party opponent of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro) speak loudly, with a distinctive Caribbean dialect, are Cuban. After 15 minutes, a petite brunette woman approaches them.
Get directions and cross to the other side of the av. Amazon's a man waiting and gave him money.
10 minutes later comes and meets a young woman with short stature. Both are aimed at the entrance to the Civil Registry, the av. United Nations. The man who once gave
cash enters the area of \u200b\u200bmarriage.
"I came from Cuba and got married four days later with an Ecuadorian, was the easiest way to obtain dual nationality," says Jesus V., who obtained the certificate of citizenship Ecuador on August 29, 2009.
The Cuban, 44, says that now, as an Ecuadorian citizen, may issue annually three letters of invitation to his fellow (document authorizing him to leave his country.) That live in the coming months.
He offers $ 600 to any Ecuadorian that lends itself to formally invite three of their countrymen. "I just need to help me with the name because the bank accounts of it myself," says Jesus, who prefers the younger students.
According to the records of the National Directorate of Immigration, so far, 2009 entered the country 14 788 people from Cuba (see box). In addition, the Foreign Ministry, 840 naturalized Cubans so far this year.
One of the highlights of this massive migration was the willingness of President Rafael Correa of \u200b\u200beliminating travel visas for foreign citizens, to promote tourism in Ecuador. This applies from 20 June 2008.
Many of the Cubans who entered the country with this type settled in the neighborhood of La Florida, north of Quito. "Cuba is small", say the residents of the sector.
not only because dozens of Cuban flags are around but the country which are displayed in windows or local food or clothing. In one of them works Carlos Triana, who arrived in December 2008. "We can not freely leave Cuba because the regime does not leave us. Do not want to go back." Triana
has the refugee card. He worked at the Interior Ministry in Cuba, but he was fired. Why
came to Ecuador? "It is the only country where I do not require visa," he replies.
Although the Act entitles them to stay only three months, the majority seeks to obtain dual nationality to enter and leave Cuba and bring your entire family.
to come Triana paid USD2 000 and other Cubans to help him. On the island working as a chef at three restaurants, 19 hours a day and earned just 200 pesos (USD 20). He declined to disclose how it obtained the $ 2 000, only admitted that his departure from the island it took four months.
Javier Godines, 40 years, however, met an Ecuadorian in Cuba and he sent the letter of invitation required. Now a chef in a restaurant on Avenue De la Prensa. Okan Tomi "Relieve your nostalgia," reads the local creative label which has a blue and white flag.
Godin wants to return to Cuba. Thus, although 22-year married there and has three children, married again tomorrow with an Ecuadorian not yet known.
Due to the explosive increase in arranged marriages, on 4 June the Registrar General's Office issued resolution 003 A and ordered another requirement for this procedure: stay at home a minimum of 75 days (almost three months). However, the number of marriages doubled between 2008 and so far
2009 (see graphic).
regard, the foreign minister said Falconi Fander not allow illegal acts. "We sent two offices the police and the Prosecutor to investigate, but we have not heard anything yet. "It also stated that talks are underway with the Cuban authorities for the establishment of filters.
According to the director of the Judicial Police, Claudio Guerra, research on the Cuban mafia arranged marriages is held by the Organized Crime Unit.
The website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba can access the procedure for getting a residence permit Abroad (PRE) . The requirements are: "Being married to a citizen and maintain a moral and social behavior according to the rules of coexistence (...)".
But besides marriage, another way to get citizenship is to have a child in Ecuador. That alternative is vital to islanders and Jael Lira Katie Santos, who have a child in two months. "We want to stay, so we work hard," said Lira.
Although the authorities are aware of this phenomenon and that impact could be in the criminal field, the Chancery, Embassy of Cuba and
Police have no plan to regulate the entry and activities of immigrants.
narrowed the political link
Lautaro Pozo's deputy foreign minister also acknowledged that diplomatic relations were strengthened political relations between Cuba and Ecuador. "These are manifested in the Unasur coordinating positions and in Alba."
In the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has the July 28, 1930 signed the first agreement with Cuba. To date, 89 agreements were signed. Of these, 19 were implemented between 2006 and 2009, the current government.
40 officials from the Presidency, including advisers and military officers, traveled to Cuba on various dates.
President Rafael Correa traveled twice this year, and his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro, came to his possession. But friendship is also reflected in the arrival of medical delegations
: 174 doctors arrived on two flights, on 8 September, to work in the program mirror Manuela care for people with disabilities.
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Editorial Policy When did the relationship between Cuba and Ecuador
There is a historic relationship of peoples and their roots are in Eloy Alfaro, who played for Cuba's , Spain asking our freedom.
And with Rafael Correa?
With the President have more political affinity with other governments and in these two years was strengthened. A highlight was her visit to Havana Correa. In January, he signed 11 agreements risk management, health, education, sports ...
What is Cuban cooperation in Ecuador?
The ophthalmologist was 95 000 people have operated free in three centers. There are also contributions in the field of education with the program I if I can and Manuela Mirror.
Cubans are arriving in droves. For what purposes?
Some come to stay, but the vast majority, 85% are returning to Cuba. Within that process, unfortunately there are mafias that exploit todo.Es the only one of the few in the world you do not need visa. More
marriages
Yes, it is a criminal act which marriage of convenience to obtain naturalization. The two governments must avoid the illicit.
Are they controlling?
We are in conversations. We want an orderly migration because we know that there are mafias that smuggle people.
