Alina León García saw her dream of reaching the United States truncated. This 65-year-old woman from Santiago de Cuba died of strangulation and her body was found last Thursday in a place in the Mexican community of Benemérito de las Américas, near the border with Guatemala, according to data published on Facebook by Radio Salvation in Mexico.
León left the island in September bound for Jamaica, a stopover before traveling to Nicaragua and making the journey, as thousands of Cubans do through Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico until they reach the US border.
In the same publication, relatives of León affirmed that he was traveling together with other people and were aware that he had arrived in the Mexican state of Chiapas, where dozens of foreigners gather daily outside immigration stations to obtain the Multiple Migratory Form, a safe conduct that allows them their legal stay for 30 days.
Leon’s case was different, she had paid a coyote so that she would pass it to the United States, for this reason the relatives of this woman from Santiago did not believe her death and that she was separated from the group with which she was traveling. When they contacted smugglerhe only told them that he had been lost in Guatemala.
León left the island in September bound for Jamaica, a stopover before traveling to Nicaragua and making the journey, as thousands of Cubans do through Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico until they reach the border with the United States.
The relatives tried to obtain more details with León’s companions, but they were tight-lipped and some did not respond to the text messages sent to them by cell phones. They were able to find out, thanks to contacting the municipal authorities, that the body of a woman with Alina’s characteristics had been buried in a common grave as an unknown person.
The state of Chiapas has become an insecure transit region for Cubans. In June, the body of Alfredo Ferretis Berenguer It was abandoned on an embankment in the El Lagartero ejido, in Tapachula. This Cuban from the municipality of Regla, in Havana, was “executed.” According to experts from the Chiapas State Attorney General’s Office, the body “had blows to the face and a shot to the head.”
A month before, on May 17, Julia Lucia Flores Garcia, boarded a bus in Tapachula bound for Mexico City as part of his journey to the United States. Minutes after she started the journey, the Cuban woman died of “a heart attack.”
On the other hand, in the early hours of this Tuesday a caravan with at least 600 people, several Cubans among them, left for the state of Oaxaca. Shouting: “Let us go,” the group reached Huixtla.
On Friday, 36 people with irregular stay were detained as part of the surveillance work of the National Guard. The group was taken to the Siglo XXI immigration station.
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