Arrival this Sunday, September 25, in Managua the remains of Nicaraguan Cela María Vivas García, 24, originally from San Marcos, Carazo, who died of causes still unknown while crossing the border wall between Mexico and the United States.
To achieve repatriation, the young woman’s relatives made a collection to collect eight thousand dollars for the paperwork to send the remains to Nicaragua.
The body of the young woman remained in the Regional Medical Center, located in the city of Yuma, in the state of Arizona, United States. The tragic event occurred at the end of August when the woman tried to enter the United States in search of the American dream. Gustavo Pool Sansón, husband of Cela Vivas García, said that his and the young couple’s goal was to work to save and buy a house. They would both have been married for a year.
Texas Nicaraguan Community reported that according to the version “of her companion (of the young woman), before crossing the wall (Cela Vivas) she fainted, crossed her loaded and handed her over.” He added that the Nicaraguan was taken to the hospital where she was later declared dead. She pointed out that so far “the causes of her death are not known.”
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Mexico is a country of obligatory transit for Nicaraguan migrants or exiles who try to reach the United States in the face of the serious social, political, humanitarian and human rights crisis that the country is experiencing under the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The migration of nationals to the North American country has registered unprecedented figures, even much higher than those recorded in the 1980s, during the first Sandinista regime of Ortega.
From January to July 2022, the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) registered 96,193 Nicaraguan arrests, 358% more than in the same period last year, a record number. .
Nicaragua ranked 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.
