A senior official at the Interior Ministry of Cuba, which has been sanctioned by the United States for its role in human rights violations, was granted a visa to travel to New York as part of the Cuban delegation attending the United Nations General Assembly.
Colonel Mario Méndez Mayedo, who oversees the ministry's department handling migration and foreign citizen issues, was not mentioned in the Cuban Foreign Ministry's list of delegation members. But an op-ed published by the local news outlet Cubadebate identified him as present at a meeting with Cuban Americans at the country's mission to the U.N.
