Former incarcerated Cuban drug trafficker repatriated to Cuba

era garcia castilla un "cuentapropista" o ha sido un leal sargento del cartel de biran?

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Earlier this year, a High Court rejected suggestions that Garcia, who had remained in custody after serving a 20 year jail term on drug trafficking posed a threat to national security and society. (Source: YouTube)

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tuesday September 24, 2013, CMC – Less than two weeks after the Barbados government said it had reached an agreement with Cuba to have it accept a former drug trafficker, whom Bridgetown had once described as a threat to national security and society, Raul Garcia Monday boarded a flight for Havana.

The Daily Nation newspaper said that Garcia, who was in the company of immigration officials left Barbados after checking in at Grantley Adams International Airport early on Monday.

Earlier this month, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement said that the two countries had “reached a successful conclusion in the negotiations to have Mr. Raul Garcia Castilla repatriated to Cuba.”

Earlier this year, a High Court rejected suggestions that Garcia, who had remained in custody after serving a 20 year jail term on drug trafficking posed a threat to national security and society.

In her 110-page ruling, Justice Margaret Reifer said Garcia would only be released from custody when lawyers and Immigration Department officials come up with a joint plan for his conditions of staying in the country, and who he would live with.

In the statement, the Barbados government said that negotiations with Havana had been ongoing since the Foreign Ministry wrote to the Cuban Embassy on October 15, 2012, requesting assistance with Garcia’s return to Cuba.

The Barbados government said that it was pleased with the “successful resolution of this matter achieved through sustained diplomatic action between Barbados and Cuba, as befits two countries which enjoy long-standing and cordial relations”.

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