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2008-04-11 01:00:41 -
TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) - Cuban volleyball star Guillermo Roberto
Cabrera deserted the national team with his father and have asked
Mexican authorities not to be sent back to the island.
An immigration agent, who was not authorized to be quoted by name, said
on Thursday that 20-year-old Cabrera and his father, Guillermo Cabrera
Fernandez, a former Cuba basketball coach, were at immigration offices
in southern Chiapas state while their request for a 30-day transit
permit was considered.
Such requests by Cubans are usually granted within about two weeks, and
the Cubans frequently use the permits to reach the U.S. border by land.
Both men left Cuba's volleyball team when it was visiting Mexico in late
March, just before it was scheduled to leave for Guatemala.
Both were detained at an immigration checkpoint on March 31 as they were
traveling with a group of Central American migrants in two vehicles near
the Guatemalan border.
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