Speeding and a mechanical failure were the causes of a van overturning last Friday in the Mexican state of Puebla. On board were 17 migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Colombia, bound for the border with the United States. A Civil Protection source confirmed to 14ymedio that eight people died, three minors and five women, and nine receive medical attention.
Among the injured is the Cuban Daime Irais Morales Gerez who “has not yet offered details of the people with whom she was traveling.” This 30-year-old woman was “assisted by paramedics from Unit PUE-371 of the Mexican Red Cross, who reported her with trauma” and she was admitted to the General Hospital of the municipality of Tehuacán.
The deceased people were “taken as unknown” to the municipality of Ciudad Serdán, where they will remain in the forensic medical service unit. According to data from local authorities, the truck, with a report of theft, left the state of Chiapas, bordering Guatemala, and was supposed to reach the limits with Mexico City, where they would make a stopover.
The deceased people were “taken as unknown” to the municipality of Ciudad Serdán, where they will remain in the forensic medical service unit
The paramedic of the Advanced Medical Emergency System (Suma), identified as Luis Ernesto, told 14ymedio, that upon arrival at the scene there were several bodies “scattered” on the road. “Some people were more than two meters from the truck, they were ejected after the rollover,” he said.
The coyote, who was driving the truck, was taken out by people who came in another vehicle, while the injured were asking for help, according to what a witness told Luis Ernesto. “They abandoned the women and children. The authorities have already opened an investigation for human trafficking and are verifying the passports that were found.”
Last March, three Cubans died in a traffic accident in the state of Veracruz (Mexico). The bodies, including those of Anet Patricia Aguilera Canto and her daughter Anyelina Rodríguez AguileraThey were handed over to their relatives. Meanwhile, Ailed Díaz suffered a spinal injury, for which he underwent surgery, and Alejandro Paz Salas.
This Saturday Migration reported that 57 migrants, among whom were Cubans, Guatemalans, Dominicans and Salvadorans, were rescued by members of the National Guard in the border state of Chihuahua with the United States. Data offered through a communicationpoint out that “these people were being extorted” by an armed group from whom weapons and two trucks were seized.
A group of 57 migrants, including Cubans, Guatemalans, Dominicans and Salvadorans, were rescued by members of the National Guard in the border state of Chihuahua with the United States.
From the beginning of the fiscal year, October 1, 2021, until mid-June 2022, a total of 140,602 Cubans entered the United States through the border, a figure that already exceeds the Mariel exodus of 1980, when 125,000 people reached the ground. American in seven months.
The exodus also takes place by sea. The chief officer of the Border Patrol, Walter Slosarreported this Saturday that in the last 24 hours “78 Cuban rafters were taken into custody,” who were detained after making landfall in the Florida Keys.
On Friday, the US Coast Guard repatriated 36 Cubans aboard the ship Isaac May. Four more were transferred to the Homeland Security Investigations unit.
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