Madrid Spain.- At the end of last June, three people who tried to reach the United States drowned. The bodies have not yet been identified, reported this Wednesday The universal, after contacting the prosecutor’s office in Oaxaca, Mexico.
The deceased were traveling in a group that included more than 20 Cubans. The migrants went in two boats from Tapachula to Oaxaca and then continued to the United States. The boats capsized in the sea, which caused the death of these people.
Due to the discovery of the three bodies, the Attorney General of the State of Oaxaca (FGEO) initiated the investigation folder 22717/FIST/FAMI-IXTEPEC/2022 for the crime of undetermined homicide and sent letters addressed to the consulates of Nicaragua, El Salvador , Honduras and Guatemala to identify the victims of the accident of the two vessels.
However, in the case of the families of Cuban migrants “the uncertainty grows, because they know that their authorities never contact or report on these cases,” he points out. The universal.
The family of Yaneli Asencio Tudela, originally from Guantánamo, and who was allegedly traveling in one of these boats, explained that the 36-year-old woman left Cuba on June 20 and managed to reach Mexico.
On June 27, together with a group of approximately 25 Cubans, he boarded a boat that left Tapachula, Chiapas, bound for Oaxaca. From there she had to go to Mexico City and later to Piedras Negras, Coahuila, to finally try to cross the border with the United States and meet with Rafael, her husband.
However, Asencio Tudela did not communicate on the scheduled date and since then they have not heard from her.
The young woman’s sister pointed out that the last information they had was about the overturning of the two boats.
Of the three bodies found, one was that of a woman. However, the relatives of Yaneli Asencio Tudela hope that it is not her.
“We have no information, we do not know anything else, if they have her detained, if she is in a hospital or if a coyote has her,” they indicated.
After learning about the overturning of the two boats In the vicinity of the community of Aguachil, Oaxaca, local authorities mobilized to search and rescue the bodies.
On the morning of June 30, 2022, the discovery of two lifeless bodies, male and female, was reported in the vicinity of Playa Cachimbo. While on July 2 another male body was found on the shores of Isla de León Beach.
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