Granma Comments on Alfredo Diaz, Jr.
Granma has published a brief article regarding Alfredo Diaz, Jr.'s trip back to Cuba to be with his mother. here is a complete translation:
Miami, US (EFE): A Cuban adolescent aged 14 escaped from his home in Miami last week and boarded a plane in that city's international airport to fly to Havana.
Alfredo Diaz, a student in a school in Miami-Dade (Florida), was able to fool American Airlines personnel, who require that passengers under 15 years of age be accompanied by an adult, and boarded a plane to Nassau (Bahamas).
Once in the Bahamas, Diaz probably used his Cuban passport, which he had taken from his father's safe, and took a flight to Havana.
Diaz's father expressed his disbelief to the Miami Herald that no one with American Airlines thought to ask his son why he was traveling alone. Apparently, Diaz was going through a phase of angst typical of adolescents and had come to know a Cuban girl during a visit to the island last summer.
The young man's father was irate with the negligence of the airline and stated that they would have to explain how such a thing could happen.
"Our agent reviewed the year of birth (1991) but did not check [the boy's] actual birth day," according to American Airlines spokesperson Martha Pantin's statement to EFE.
In fact, "there is no federal law that mandates that procedure, but it is an internal requirement" that minors not fly without an adult companion, stated Pantin.
Diaz's mother contacted the boy's father this past Thursday to let him know his son was with her in Cuba.
She also let him know that the boy had used his father's credit card to buy plane tickets on the Internet to Nassau for $157 and to Havana for $315.
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i believe that this acknowledgement means that the Cuban government will not treat this issue as a political question, and will allow the boy to travel back to the US if he so chooses.
i hope i am right.
Miami, US (EFE): A Cuban adolescent aged 14 escaped from his home in Miami last week and boarded a plane in that city's international airport to fly to Havana.
Alfredo Diaz, a student in a school in Miami-Dade (Florida), was able to fool American Airlines personnel, who require that passengers under 15 years of age be accompanied by an adult, and boarded a plane to Nassau (Bahamas).
Once in the Bahamas, Diaz probably used his Cuban passport, which he had taken from his father's safe, and took a flight to Havana.
Diaz's father expressed his disbelief to the Miami Herald that no one with American Airlines thought to ask his son why he was traveling alone. Apparently, Diaz was going through a phase of angst typical of adolescents and had come to know a Cuban girl during a visit to the island last summer.
The young man's father was irate with the negligence of the airline and stated that they would have to explain how such a thing could happen.
"Our agent reviewed the year of birth (1991) but did not check [the boy's] actual birth day," according to American Airlines spokesperson Martha Pantin's statement to EFE.
In fact, "there is no federal law that mandates that procedure, but it is an internal requirement" that minors not fly without an adult companion, stated Pantin.
Diaz's mother contacted the boy's father this past Thursday to let him know his son was with her in Cuba.
She also let him know that the boy had used his father's credit card to buy plane tickets on the Internet to Nassau for $157 and to Havana for $315.
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i believe that this acknowledgement means that the Cuban government will not treat this issue as a political question, and will allow the boy to travel back to the US if he so chooses.
i hope i am right.
posted by Yimboro | 5:29 PM
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