That General Hospital “Amparo Pape de Benavides” In Coahuila, Mexico, it has treated more than 40 dehydrated migrants so far this year, including several Cubans.
Most of these migrants required medical treatment for dehydration after traveling in trucks in appalling conditions.
Angel Cruz GarciaDirector of the hospital, told Mexico’s Zócalo press office that the migrants treated were of different nationalities, mainly Cubans, Haitians, Hondurans and Venezuelans.
He pointed out that some cases were hospitalized by the National Migration Institute, but others had to be treated in migrant centers.
The official explained that they previously treated fewer migrants but with more serious injuries as many fell off the trains and had to undergo emergency surgery to save their lives.
This weekend reported the Arrest of nine Cuban immigrants when they were traveling in the luggage trailer of a truck. They were intercepted by the Mexican army at Piedras Negras.
The Cubans were traveling with 23 migrants of other nationalities, including 14 Hondurans, five Guatemalans and three Salvadorans.
Authorities arrested three Mexicans known as “Polleros”, natives of Nuevo Léon, and considered them possible traffickers.
Mexican authorities also made arrests this week 22 Cuban immigrants who had taken refuge in a hotel in the city of Torreón, Coahuila.
They were part of a group of 26 migrants that included four Venezuelans. They were all intercepted at the Hotel Arriaga in the historic center of Torreón. They found her in overcrowded conditions and risks to her physical integrity.
Cubans detained by INM authorities face detention in migration centers or deportation.
this week they were 47 Cuban immigrants were repatriated to the island who have been in Mexico in an irregular situation. This was the 15th air evacuation from Aztec country in 2022.
The group consisted of 40 men and seven women. They arrived in Havana this Thursday on a Magnicharters plane.
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