Operations Safe Haven and Safe Passage

Operations Safe Haven and Safe Passage
Part of the 1994 Cuban rafter crisis
Location
Panama
ObjectiveAlleviate overcrowding of Cuban refugees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Executed byUnited States
OutcomeRioting and flight of Cuban refugees
Later relocation of Cuban refugees back to Guantanamo Naval Base
Casualties200 military personnel
30 Cuban refugees

Operations Safe Haven and Safe Passage (September 8, 1994 – March 15, 1995) were operations by the United States Joint Task Force designed to relieve the overcrowded migrant camps at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Safe Haven established four camps on Empire Range, Panama, to provide a safe haven for up to ten thousand Cuban migrants. Safe Passage then returned the migrants to Guantanamo after the crowded conditions could be alleviated. These migrants had attempted to enter the United States illegally by crossing the Florida Straits in summer 1994. The operation was conducted under the command of General Barry McCaffrey and the direction of Clinton administration.

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