In Mexico, the reinforcement of measures to contain illegal migration has been accompanied by a greater deployment of the military, state security forces and the imposition of visas that have forced migrants to take much more dangerous routes and expose themselves to higher risks
Six dead migrants, three of them minors, and 11 injured was the balance left by the overturning of a bus on the federal highway of Puebla, in Mexico, which occurred on the night of Saturday, August 13. People from Venezuela, Cuba and Ecuador were traveling in the unit, reported the Red Cross of the town of Tehuacán.
According to Diario Las Américas, among the deceased was a 43-year-old Venezuelan woman, identified as Carmen Soira Ortega. After several hours, the bodies of the victims were recovered and the embassies of the countries involved are expected to intervene so that they can be delivered to their relatives.
Meanwhile, the survivors were transferred to hospitals located in Santiago Miahuatlán, Esperanza and Tehuacán.
According to the testimony of one of the injured people, there was another unit that was also transporting migrants on the same route. Families had been divided into different vans, she said.
Just the day the accident occurred, the National Migration Institute (INM) of Mexico reported on its Twitter account that 688 migrants were located in the state of Puebla, of which 567 were found in a hotel car and 121 in a bus. traveling on a local highway. In addition, in the northern state of Coahuila, immigration authorities and state police found 127 Nicaraguans traveling overcrowded in a truck.
The reinforcement of measures to contain illegal migration has been accompanied by a greater deployment of military and state security forces and the imposition of visas that, according to several NGOs, including Humans Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have forced migrants to take much more dangerous routes and expose themselves to greater risks.
Just on August 10, the bodies of the 15 Venezuelans who died in a traffic accident on July 27 in Nicaragua while crossing the country in their attempt to reach the United States were handed over to the Venezuelan government. Passing through the Central American country, departing from the San Andrés Island of Colombia, has become the alternative that the compatriots take to avoid crossing the Darién jungle.
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