[NYTr] Counterrevolutionary Cuban-American Linked to Migrant Trafficking Killed in Mexico
 
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:54:53 -0600 (CST)

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AP via Int; Herald Tribune - Dec 13, 2007 [no URL provided]

Cuban-American linked to migrant smuggling ring killed in Mexico

The Associated Press

CANCUN, Mexico: A Cuban-American man suspected of smuggling Cubans
headed to the United States was gunned down in Mexico on Wedndsday, a
day before he was to talk to police about his brother's killing, a
state prosecutor said.

Juan Carlos Reyna Molas was attacked as he was leaving his house in an
exclusive Cancun neighborhood, according to state prosecutor Luis
Raymundo Canche.

"Reyna Molas ... had information about who killed his brother, and we 
believe that is why he was killed," the prosecutor said.

Authorities suspected Reyna Molas and his brother Maximiliano, who was
slain in September, of running a human trafficking ring that took
migrants from Cuba to the U.S. via Mexico.

Smugglers are increasingly using Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, which lies
just 120 miles southwest of Cuba, as a way to avoid U.S. Coast Guard
patrols between the communist-run island and Florida.

Migrants arriving in Mexico then travel by land across the U.S. border, 
where they identify themselves as Cubans and are usually given automatic
asylum under Washington's "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy. Under the
policy, Cubans intercepted at sea are generally sent back while those
who reach U.S. soil are allowed to stay.

Also Wednesday, six Cuban immigrants at a detention center in the city
of Chetumal joined four others on a hunger strike to demand they be
released.

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