The authorities of Honduras intercepted this Wednesday a dozen cuban migrants They were traveling in a truck on a highway in the south of the country. With them they arrested an alleged human trafficker who was taking them to the border with Guatemala.
The Honduran National Police detailed in a press release that the Cubans were detained in the city of Choluteca, department of the same name. A dozen people were transported in the van, who entered the country irregularly. Your final destination is USA.
The vehicle was intercepted by agents of the Transnational Criminal Investigation Unit, which depends on the Police Directorate of Investigations, and the Special Tactical Operations group.
The alleged trafficker, also known as a “coyote,” is a 33-year-old man who lives in the municipality of El Triunfo, Choluteca, on the border with Nicaragua, the Honduran Police said. He will be charged with the “flagrant crime of illicit human trafficking”, for which both he and the vehicle were brought before the authorities, the note added.
The Caribbean people were placed in the hands of the National Institute of Migration (INM) of Honduras, where they will have the opportunity to pay a fine equivalent to 220 dollars to expedite their legal departure from the country.
Honduras: detained more than a hundred migrants from Cuba on their way to the US
In recent decades, Honduras has become a transit point for migrants, especially Cubans, who enter the country irregularly, through “blind spots” through human traffickers, who do not always take them to the border with Guatemala.
According to the agency EphMore than 16,000 migrants have been detained in Honduras so far in 2022 for having illegally entered the country with the idea of reaching the United States, according to INM figures.
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