Driver leaves seven Cuban migrants on a Costa Rican highway
The group, traveling toward San José, said each person paid $100 for transportation to the capital.
Seven Cuban migrants were left at night in the Piedras Blancas area of southern Costa Rica after the driver hired to take them to San José stopped the trip on the Inter-American Highway South. The group consisted of five men and two women.
According to the migrants, each had paid $100 for the trip. The driver ordered them out of the vehicle and said he feared being stopped at a Public Force checkpoint and facing human-smuggling charges.
The migrants walked for more than two hours in the rain before stopping beside the road. A patrol found them and took them to Palmar Norte, where they were placed under the custody of the General Directorate of Migration and Immigration to regularize their status in the country.