The Texas Nicaraguan Community (TNC) organization reported that the missing bodies of the five Nicaraguans who drowned while trying to cross into the United States are being repatriated. They denounce the inaction of the Nicaraguan authorities in these situations.
“Thanking all the support to the volunteers of the Texas Nicaraguan Community and Nicaraguans in Mexico. To the Prosecutor’s Office for High Impact Crimes and crimes committed against migrants from the State of Coahuila, for all the collaboration. Of the five bodies, two that had remained in Mexico were quickly repatriated (Kevin Zapata and Omar Guevara), the rest that remained in the USA, two are already in the process of being sent to Nicaragua (Melvin Zelaya and José Antonio García) and One is in the process of repatriation (Lester Castillo),” the organization reported.
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Likewise, they denounce that “no help was obtained from the Nicaraguan consulate in Houston, in the cases of the United States, from these compatriots. So, with knowledge of the facts, we tell the Nicaraguans in Texas, they do not have representation from the Nicaraguan authorities in Texas,” say the citizens in the North American country.
The bodies of the citizens were found and identified two months after the tragedy when they lost their lives in the Rio Grande, in the passage between Mexico and the United States, on May 26.
The TNC had previously denounced that the Nicaraguan Consulate in Houston did not answer calls or emails to the relatives of those affected to give them further instructions on the process and in Nicaragua, in the Interior, they are not aware of the procedures, since the consulate has not issued no report. “The work of Consul Samuel Trejos who has not lifted a finger so that this can be carried out,” they denounce.
Diplomat Samuel Trejos is in charge of the Nicaraguan Consulate in Houston, Texas, United States; and by law, the Nicaraguan delegation is the one who must intervene in the process of repatriation of the bodies of the compatriots who died in North American territory.
Nicaragua currently ranks third among the countries that send the most migrants to the United States, only surpassed by Guatemala and Honduras. More than twenty Nicaraguans have perished after trying to reach the US Some die while 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 Josué Pérez Quintero, 32, who died on October 7 in a traffic accident in the municipality of Sabinas, Coahuila, in Mexico.
