the cuban doctor Alexander Pupo Casas reiterated that his journey through Guatemala “was hell” during his trip to the United States.
Pupo, who travels the so-called “Nicaragua route,” is among a group of migrants fleeing local police who pursue Cuban migrants primarily to extort money from them.
“Family we had to hide from the police again, the coyotes gave us a bad impression again with the police thing, they didn’t bribe the police so we had to hide on a small hill. We hid here for almost two hours waiting to be looked for,” he said on his Facebook wall.
Pupo shared video from the same Guatemalan jungle showing other members of the migrant group including several women and two girls.
The doctor He said he had to jump fences to hide, not to mention avoid other hazards, such as the pica pica bushes that abound in the area.
“What can I tell you: a total disaster. We’re still hiding, looking for a way to see how we can get out again. It seems that the adventures never end, the fears, the shock, they will never end,” he lamented.
According to the doctor, the transit through Guatemala, where the immigrant lives with omnipresent terror, was very hard.
“Guatemala has been a total hell since we started the route from Nicaragua, that’s been one after the other. Unbelievable what we’ve had to go through the last few hours, hungry, needy… I’ll tell you honestly, don’ Throw Don’t stray, don’t risk it,” he concluded.
Last Monday dr. Alexander Pupo shared a video apparently captured in it the inside of a small cargo cabin of a vehicle in which he was stuffed together with other people.
“And there were those who said that we were funded, that we were paid well by the CIA. Unfortunately, we had to live through the most difficult emigration, with no visas, no diplomats to support us, practically no money. We had to emigrate along with the Haitians, Bangladeshis, Africans, Venezuelans, Chinese and Russians. We had to take back the continent with no more weapons than our willpower to be free,” he explained.
Pupo Casas left the island in Mayafter being harassed by state security for months and expelled from the health system for criticizing the regime.
He embarks on this trip through Central America with his colleague Alexander Jesús Figueredo Izaguirre, also a Cuban doctor who was suspended from his profession because of his questions about the government.
Both asked for help to emigrate to a country where they could continue to work as doctors.
“Now, as I often do, I must campaign to ask for help, but this time for Dr. Alexander Figueredo and for myself. We have both been separated from our jobs in defense of our homeland, both without family abroad, both independent parties or organizations that fund us,” Pupo explained in April.