Havana, January 14 (RHC)-- Mexican authorities have granted transit visas to the first group of 180 Cuban migrants, who arrived in the country from El Salvador, allowing them to continue their journey upward to the United States.

The provisional documents granted by Mexico's Migration Institute give the Cuban migrants 20 days of unrestricted travel across the country.

The arrival of the Cuban migrants in Mexico is in the framework of a pilot plan agreed upon by Central American governments, as a solution to the current situation of more than 7 thousand Cubans who left Cuba legally and are trying to arrive in the United States through Central America, encouraged by Washington's discriminatory migration policy towards Cuba.

The Cuban and Central American governments have unsuccessfully called on the U.S. government to repeal the Cuban Adjustment Act and other pieces of legislation, which encourage illegal migration of Cubans to the United States.