Cuba protests US screening of passengers
Cuba has called upon the top US diplomat on the island to protest the screening of passengers of 14 countries entering or leaving the United States, including Cuba.
On Tuesday, Cuban Foreign Ministry official Josefina Vidal Ferreiro criticized the United States for the "hostile" action and said a formal protest over the security measures was delivered to US diplomat Jonathan Farrar.
The screening, which began on Monday, is the result of "anti-terrorist paranoia," she added.
She went on to say that Cuba's top diplomat in Washington delivered a similar complaint to the US State Department.
The US tautened security measures for US-bound airline passengers since Sunday, including mandatory enhanced screening of all travellers from 14 nations, after an apparent attempt to blow up a jetliner as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day.
The new measures target citizens of Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Nigeria, Algeria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq.
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