Authorities from Tamaulipas, a state in northern Mexico, confirmed the arrest last Wednesday of five Cubans who were trying to cross the Rio Grande into the United States and, this Thursday, they reported the discovery of the body of a woman allegedly of Cuban origin in an abandoned building.
Members of the Beta group of the National Migration Institute (INM) provided medical assistance to the five Cubans who were stranded in the Rio Grande. “Three of the migrants could not move due to the hypothermia they presented due to the drop in temperature and that they had been in the river for several hours,” he told 14ymedio a paramedic from the rescue team.
On January 5, the Command, Control, Communications and Computing Center was alerted to the presence of five “undocumented persons” in the vicinity of the Rio Grande in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. “Surely it was the same coyote that was going to cross them that warned,” said the paramedic.
“One of the Cubans mentioned that his intention was to get to McAllen,” Texas, where he has family and that “he met the people of the group 15 days before.” The health worker recalled that in September 2021, a young Cuban named Jill Leyva Toledano He died when he was unable to cross into the US The Cuban nationals were handed over to INM personnel.
The immigration authorities reserved the information as well as the names of the detainees, because the state authorities have an open investigation into the network of migrant smuggling that operates in Tamaulipas and is known as “those with the armband”, which “for 2,500 dollars give a bracelet to undocumented immigrants to avoid attacks by criminal groups, “said a state agent.
On January 5, the Command, Control, Communications and Computing Center was alerted to the presence of five “undocumented persons” in the vicinity of the Rio Grande in the border city of Reynosa.
According to data provided by the INM, Tamaulipas registered 73 operations in 2021. The National Guard and the State Police “rescued 6,316 people who were victims of illegal trafficking, of which 34% are minors, some traveling alone and others accompanied “. In the last months of last year, assistance was provided to 17 citizens of Cuba.
Regarding the five Cubans detained in the Rio Grande, the state agent said that “they could be deported” next week, “this because none of them wanted to deliver papers that would prove their legal stay,” for the moment they are in a shelter.
Meanwhile, authorities from the Matamoros municipality found the decomposing body of a young woman allegedly of Cuban origin in an abandoned building. The residents of the place asked for the support of the authorities due to the fetid smell that came from the property located on Álvaro Obregón y Azucenas avenue, reported on Facebook the local environment iNews MX.
Forensic Medical Service personnel registered the lifting of the body of a woman allegedly originally from Cuba. “He has a tattoo of a flower on one leg and a date on one of his hands” and does not show signs of any aggression, it was indicated in the internal report. “If no one claims the woman’s body, after a few days of performing the necropsy, she could be buried in a grave,” said a police source.
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