The humanitarian organization Texas Nicaraguan Community (TNC) is requesting help from the United States Embassy in Nicaragua so that two Nicaraguan mothers who lost their children when they tried to cross the Rio Grande in February and May, respectively, can travel with a humanitarian visa. to take the DNA test and proceed with the repatriation procedures.
The bodies of citizens correspond to Francisco Jose Tellez Y Kelvin Antonio Torrez Medina. They remain at the Webb County Morgue in Laredo, Texas; USA.
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The TNC initiative comes after —according to what they denounce— the Nicaraguan consul in Texas, Samuel Trejo, “He has detached himself from helping these families to resolve the situation of taking DNA samples in Nicaragua.”
They added that Trejos “no longer answers emails or calls” that have been sent to him to expedite the pertinent steps for the repatriation of the bodies.
Recently, the humanitarian organization denounced that there is negligence on the part of the Nicaraguan regime in the repatriation of the bodies of citizens who have perished on their journey to reach the United States. They reiterated that time passes and they still have not received answers from the Nicaraguan consul in Texas.
«We have a commitment in the search, with our compatriots. Of the four that we have in the search report, only one is already in the identification process, the body of Lester Castillo Jarquín, his brother went to take the DNA test at the morgue in Laredo, Texas. What happens to the rest? ”, Questioned the organization.
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“The morgue in Laredo, Texas, is saturated with bodies in unidentified condition, and while there is no official search report, by the Government of Nicaragua, in this case the report of the Consulate in Houston, Texas, they do not open any process of searching for identity in the morgue”, explains the Nicaraguan community in the United States.
Currently, Nicaragua ranks third among the countries that most migrants travel to the United States, only surpassed by Guatemala and Honduras. At least 30 Nicaraguans have perished after trying to reach North American soil. Some die crossing the Rio Grande, others are victims of extortion or kidnapping.
The last body to be repatriated to Nicaragua was that of the migrant Eliazar Joshua Perez Quintero32 years old, who died on October 7 in a traffic accident in the municipality of Sabinas, Coahuila, in Mexico.
According to TNC, the body of the Nicaraguan was transferred on an Avianca airline flight yesterday, Sunday, October 23, and once again stressed that the National Migration Institute did not provide help for the transfer, “despite the fact that the case was cataloged transportation of undocumented immigrants and human trafficking and only went through an administrative process without any resolution.
