Among the deceased there are also two Cuban doctors.
CDMX, Mexico. – Four Cubans, including two doctors and a minor, were found dead in a home in the community of San Diego, in the municipality of Texcoco, State of Mexicoin a case that the newspaper 14ymedio preliminarily attributed to poisoning related to LP gas.
The newspaper, based in Havana, cited Mexican authorities and an acquaintance of the victims.
The deaths occurred the morning of last Thursday, January 8, according to reports The Daywhich noted that firefighters and Civil Protection agents responded to the report of “a strong smell of gas” on Del Recreo Street, in San Diego, and that upon entering they found four people unconscious, with no vital signs. The same media indicated that the preliminary cause “points to a leak originating in a boiler of passage with malfunction” and that the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Mexico was notified to initiate expert reports.
In his report, 14ymedio He identified the victims as Cuban doctors Illieth Ramírez Saldiñas, 36, and David Martínez Guerrero, 34, as well as “another individual identified as Osmani” and the minor Abraham, eight years old.
According to the report from that medium, the Cubans were stranded in Mexico after the arrival of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States. “Unfortunately, like all of us here, we were laid off and we had to do the documentation and we were in that process,” said Raudel León Martínez, an acquaintance of the victims.
The same witness requested support for the repatriation of the bodies and rejected assistance from the Cuban State. “These are the results of that regime, that some die on the spot and others crossing, trying to achieve the American dream. That Government is indirectly to blame for professionals having to escape the country, for children having to leave the Island. That is very bad.” He also stated: “Nothing from the Government of my country, we want absolutely nothing from them.”
14ymedio reported that Ramírez and Martínez rented an apartment on “the closed street of Recreo number 60,” in San Diego, Texcoco, and that they offered medical services in community pharmacies, with consultations “with a maximum cost of 60 pesos (a little more than three dollars).”
