The president of The Havana Consulting Group, Emilio Morales, revealed this Tuesday

at the event “The Axis of Latin American Autocratic Oligarchies,” held in Madrid, that 4% of the Cuban population has emigrated to the United States in the last two years, due to the “total collapse” of the country.

“Approximately 450,000 people have left the country for the United States. Of these

, 366,000 entered illegally through the border and others came through family reunification or humanitarian parole,” detailed the expert.

According to data provided by Morales, another 30,000 Cuban migrants are “stranded in Mexico

” attempting to cross into the U.S.

“We are talking about 4% of the Cuban population, a rate that the UN categorizes as a failed

state. If Cuba were located on the continent, in Central America, probably around five million people would have already left,” the expert stated during the meeting held in Spain under the auspices of the think tank Cuba Siglo 21.

The president of The Havana Consulting Group asserted that “Cuba is a mafia state that has

neglected its primary obligations to the population” after explaining in his lecture the structure of the military conglomerate GAESA, which controls the national economy.

“The situation in Cuba today is not an economic crisis, but a systemic crisis because the health

, financial, transportation, and energy systems have collapsed. The only institutions still standing are the repressive ones,” Morales denounced.

Nearly

target="_blank">14,000 Cubans have received permission so far to enter the United States under the “Humanitarian Parole” program implemented by the Biden Administration at the beginning of this year, according to official figures reviewed by Univision 23.

The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State,

Brian Nichols, noted in mid-March, during a presentation at the University of Florida, that the “desperation” that sparked the anti-government protests in July 2021 on the island has also triggered “a wave of migration, with more Cubans arriving at our southern border and the beaches of Florida in the last year than during the maritime migration waves of 1980 and 1994 combined.”

“In 2022, nearly 300,000 Cubans crossed the southwest border, representing almost three percent

of the estimated population of Cuba,” Nichols specified.

The Assistant Secretary of State also denounced that “the Cuban people face one of the most difficult

and dire political, economic, and social circumstances since Fidel Castro came to power” and that “the situation regarding human rights is grimmer than it has been in decades.”