QUITO, Ecuador — A wave of Cuban fortune-seekers is turning Ecuador as an alternative to United States — creating an anti-immigrant backlash in a small South American country that is itself a major source of migrants abroad.
Some 50,000 Cubans have entered the country since its leftist government dropped all visa requirements in 2008 and the sudden proliferation has officials warning that some Cubans are obtaining Ecuadorean citizenship fraudulently.
Some see Ecuador as a stop on their journey to join Cuban-American communities in the United States, and officials say smugglers have carried Cubans up the Pacific coast to Mexico and the United States.
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[Posted by Clarissa Arafiles]
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