Cuban migrants paid 500 dollars to the coyote Huberto Vázquez Gómez, The Vampire, linked to drug traffickers, to avoid being detained by the authorities during their journey from the Mexican capital to Nuevo León and the municipality of Saltillo, in the border state of Coahuila with the United States, wakefulness an investigation of Image News.
Vázquez’s cell phone, detained last Tuesday around the North Bus Terminal, contains text messages from Cubans asking for information on transfers and payment methods. The undocumented were contacted in areas near the center of Mexico City, where they were provided with the date, place and time of the bus departures.
Vázquez has been linked by the Government with the criminal group Gulf Cartel, with a presence in the country since 1984 and dedicated to drug and arms trafficking. With this organization, he coordinated the transfers and payment to Mexican authorities, including at least five low-ranking military personnel and six members of the National Guard. For every bus with 40 migrants the coyote got $ 20,000.
The presence of drug traffickers in the illegal trafficking of foreigners has intensified in the last year. JHCA, an operator of the Sinaloa Cartel, of which Joaquín Guzmán Loera was the leader, El Chapo, is pointed out in Costa Rica as the head of a network that charged between 14,000 and 22,000 dollars for taking undocumented persons from Colombia to the United States, according to public The universal last september.
With the capture of 42 men and women in Costa Rica and Panama, according to the report, part of the human trafficking network was dismantled, however, the leader managed to flee to Nicaragua, where there is another cell of traffickers.
Vázquez has been linked by the Government to the criminal group Cartel del Golfo, with a presence in the country since 1984 and dedicated to drug and arms trafficking.
To reduce the flow of migrants, the Government of Mexico has implemented restrictive measures in some border states. In Coahuila, since September, it was announced that by order of the authorities, in hotels and public transport undocumented persons will not be served.
The measures have not prevented the increase in caravans or groups that make the journey from Chiapas to the US border in the north of the country on their own. This Thursday the National Institute of Migration (INM) located in a motel in the state of Puebla 27 Cubans and Salvadorans –10 children among them–, who could not prove their legal stay and were taken to a shelter.
On Quintana RooBetween October 1 and 24, 157 people from Cuba, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize were detained without papers and taken to migration facilities to define their situation.
On the other hand, INM Beta Groups have provided assistance to the caravans that have emerged in recent days. According detailed this wednesday in a post The immigration institution, a Cuban woman and a Honduran woman were assisted during the trip in the border state of Chiapas after presenting “symptoms of dehydration, dyspnea, heat stroke and exhaustion.”
Last month, thousands of people from the island, Venezuela and mostly from Haiti opened a new chapter in the migration crisis faced by President Joe Biden since his arrival at the White House, by camping under the bridge that connects Del Río , in Texas, with Ciudad Acuña, in Coahuila territory.
The Department of Homeland Security reported then Some 2,000 Haitians were returned to their country, another 8,000 migrants decided to return “voluntarily” to Mexico and about 20,000 began to be processed to determine if they were expelled or could submit their case to an Immigration judge to determine if they were allows you to stay in the United States.
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