The United States Embassy in Bridgetown is yet to issue a formal statement on the Raul Garcia saga.
However, when contacted Friday, a United States official in Washington said the government was not allowing Garcia to return because he was not an American citizen.
The Cuban-born convicted drug dealer, who was arrested in Barbados in 1994 and recently completed his sentence, is now on a hunger strike here.
The official, who did not want to be named, described Garcia, 57, as a permanent resident who did not become a naturalized American citizen after his parents entered the United States when he was four years old.
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