Relatives of Shakira Martínez received this Sunday the body of the 21-year-old girl who died along with nine other Cuban women in a traffic accident on October 1 because the truck in which they were trying to reach the border with the United States was being driven at excess speed and overturned in Pijijiapan, in the Mexican state of Chiapas. A source confirmed to 14 intervene that after 9 in the morning, the Holguín woman’s body was already in the funeral home.
With the video of a plane taking off from an air terminal, the Cuban Embassy in Mexico announced this Saturday that “in accordance with the family will” the “bodies of Cuban citizens who died in an accident in Chiapas” were repatriated. As has been usual on this topic, he omitted to give details about the number of victims and their names.
The diplomatic headquarters limited itself to indicating that consular officials and Mexican authorities were traveling on the flight.
A nurse at the Pijijiapan hospital confirmed to this newspaper that in addition to Shakira Martínez, among the victims were Dayanes Morales Piedra, 23, Naelis Carrillo Rodríguez, Aylen Moreira Guimarais, María Fernanda Lara (12), Zulema de la Caridad Amarral Valverde ( 16) and Alicia de la Caridad Rodríguez Montero (22).
The incident recorded 15 injuries whose names were revealed by user Ernesto Sánchez. Among the injured Cubans are Danelis Talavera Sánchez, 32 years old, Maylen Melisa Aliaga Tamayo, 24 years old; Ariany Nolasco Moreyda de la Caridad, 7 years old; Yaritza Alen Cuitic, 44 years old; Eliani Dueña Carrillo, six years old; Melisa Guiarte Serrano, 18 years old; Eylisa Mauro Chávez Prieto, 20 years old; Sonia Tamayo Rosales, 53 years old; Dykenia Rodríguez, 46 years old; Diana Iris Lozano Moleón, 26 years old; Armando Cárdenas Césped, 60 years old; Alejandro Adrián Velasco, 12 years old; Yorlayne Valverde Pastol, 17 years old; Roos Liz Cortina Mandearabe, 18 years old, and Félix Arreaga Suárez, 46 years old.
The desperation of Cubans and the difficulties in obtaining a safe passage that allows them free transit through Mexico has led them to pay truckers to take them out of the state of Chiapas and they can continue their journey to the United States.
The desperation of Cubans and the difficulties in obtaining a safe passage that allows them free transit through Mexico has led them to pay truckers to take them out of the state of Chiapas and they can continue their journey to the United States.
The Chiapas Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation for the crime of reckless homicide in “traffic events” against the person or persons responsible for this accident. So far, the driver, who fled after the accident, is blamed.
Among the Cubans who are stranded in Tapachula there is fear of being detained and deported due to the delay in immigration procedures. An Immigration source confirmed to 14 intervene that the 138 Cubans deported on Saturday “were at the Siglo XXI Immigration Station,” which is located in Tapachula.
The Cubans were transferred to the airport in five vans from the National Migration Institute and “a luxury bus.” The operation was supervised by Carlos Eduardo Espinoza Morales, who has been accused by migrant defenders of “abuse of authority.”
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