Guatemala will decree three days of mourning after the road accident in the south of Mexico that left 55 dead migrants, the majority from the Central American country, Guatemalan Foreign Minister Pedro Brolo reported this Friday.
President Alejandro Giammattei “will announce” that there will be three days of national mourning, with the flag at half mast, “Brolo told reporters outside a hospital in Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Chiapas), where some injured from the accident remain.
“At this moment all Guatemala is with condolences, “he added.
About 160 migrants, mostly undocumented Central Americans, were traveling Thursday in a trailer that hit a pedestrian bridge on a curve in a Tuxtla Gutiérrez highway, allegedly due to speeding.
Border with Guatemala, Chiapas It is the main access point for illegal migrants, who are transported in inhumane conditions in trailers by human traffickers.
Among the victims of the tragedy there are also citizens of Honduras, Mexico, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic, according to authorities.
The flow of undocumented immigrants multiplied after the coming to power of Biden, who promised to analyze their cases.
More than 190,000 have been detected in Mexico between January and September, triple the number in 2020. Some 74,300 have been deported.
U.S, in turn, recorded that 1.7 million people entered illegally from Mexico between October 2020 and last September, a historical record.
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