The Texas Nicaraguan Community organization denounces that there is negligence on the part of the Nicaraguan regime in the repatriation of the bodies of citizens who have perished on their way to the United States. They reiterate that time passes and they still have not received answers from Consul Samuel Trejos.
«We have a commitment in the search, with our compatriots. Of the four that we have in the search report, only one is already in the identification process, the body of Lester Castillo Jarquín, his brother went to take the DNA test at the morgue in Laredo, Texas. What happens to the rest? ”, Questions the organization.
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“The Laredo Texas morgue is saturated with unidentified bodies, and while there is no official search report by the Nicaraguan Government, in this case the report from the consulate in Houston, Texas, does not open any process. identity search in the morgue”, explains the Nicaraguan community in the United States.
Given the emergency situation, they highlight that the morgue has gone so far as to bury the bodies immediately, “as happened with the body that was reported to us on September 3, 2022, De Marvin Antonio Blandón Obregón, who was buried in a of Maverick County, Texas.
Among the three people waiting for paperwork, they especially expose the case of the relatives of Kelvin Torrez, who “have gone many times to the Ministry of the Interior in the hope that there will be an order for the identification process of their son and they always tell him that the consulate does not He has given no instructions in that case.”
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They affirm that the families do not answer calls or emails to give them further instructions on the process and in Nicaragua in the Government they are not aware of the procedures, since the consulate has not issued any report. “Work of Consul Samuel Trejos who HAS NOT Moved a finger so that this can be carried out,” they denounce.
Diplomat 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 deceased compatriots 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 United States. Some die crossing the Rio Grande, others are victims of extortion or kidnapping.
