The lifeless body of a Cuban migrant 65 years old who was on the way United States of America was found in it Mexiconear the border with Guatemala, local media reported.
Alina Leon Garcianative of Santiago de CubaHe would have been “strangled” in an area near the border community of Benemérito de las Américas. According to Impacto Noticias Regionales, his body was found by the authorities last Thursday, October 6.
A Guatemalan man who leases land to farm on the Mexican side of the border found León García’s body on the ground, according to local news site Neviprod Guatemala, and notified the city’s Public Safety Command.
The migrant left Cuba for Jamaica last September with the intention of later arriving in Central America, Impacto Noticias Regionales reported, citing relatives of the victim who contacted this local media outlet.
Alina León followed the migration route through Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala until she reached the Mexican state of Chiapas, where she lost her life.
Victim’s relatives “are demanding justice and are asking the Mexican government [que] his death has been solved.” According to the above media story, the last known thing about León García was that the “coyote” or human trafficker who promised to take her to the southern border with the United States allegedly made the contact had “crossed” to her border between Guatemala and Mexico”.
The Cuban was buried in the common tomb of the municipal pantheon Benemérito de las Américas as an “unknown person” because her identity had not been clarified until then, according to Impacto Noticias Regionales.
According to this medium, the Attorney General’s Office is investigating the case in its department “Fighting Femicides”.
In recent months, the flow of Cuban migrants through Mexico has increased, mainly to try to cross the southern border into the United States. At the end of September, around 14,000 Cubans had applied for international protection in Mexico, Mexico’s Commission for Refugee Assistance (Comar) reported Oct. 3.
The island, ruled by the Communist Party, is experiencing one of the worst economic, social and human rights crises in its history.
According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, nearly 180,000 Cubans entered that country from Mexico in fiscal year 2022, and another 8,000 attempted to do so by sea.