Cuban colonel meets in Miami with U.S. officials
February 10, 2016
Nora Gamez Torres, El Nuevo Herald
A colonel in Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior led a Havana delegation that met with U.S. officials in Miami this week on ways to battle human trafficking and migration fraud during a session at the office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Cuba’s Foreign Ministry reported in a statement that the island delegation was led by Col. Mario Méndez Mayedo, head of the Identification, Immigration and Foreigners department at the Ministry of the Interior. Other Cuban officials also participated in the talks.
The statement added that the U.S. delegation was made up of officials from Citizenship and Immigration Services as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement — both parts of Homeland Security — and the State and Justice departments...