A well-known radio host was the Nicaraguan who drowned trying to cross the ocean this Monday Bravo River to reach the territory of the United States.
Calixto Rojas, 53, did not have enough strength to reach the US coast and in a video broadcast this Wednesday by broadcaster Telemundo 51 you can see him in front of several witnesses who did nothing to help him to help goes down while he desperately screams a friend who told him “don’t give up”.
The victim’s brother, Ariel Rojas, told the above outlet that it was “very difficult” for her to realize that her relative had drowned in the Rio Grande.
The deceased was from the department of León and worked for more than 20 years at Radio Darío for the Toruño family, who also fell victim to the repression of Daniel Ortega’s regime and were forced into exile in the United States.
Calixto left his entire family in Nicaragua, who now have to find $3,000 to ship his body from the Mexican border to Nicaragua.
This was reported by the National Migration Institute (INM) of Mexico this Tuesday A total of 19 bodies of migrants have been rescued from the Rio Grande so far this year.
The rescues were carried out by staff from the Beta Group of the Interior Ministry’s INM, whose mission, according to the official statement, is “to protect and defend and rescue the human rights of migrants through support measures such as guidance and assistance.”
“The INM is participating in the ‘Mirror’ border security operation, in which various authorities from Mexico and the USA are conducting preventive rounds to save the lives of migrants,” the note said about the Nicaraguan broadcaster’s drowning the eyes of the Mexican and US authorities and they did not intervene to save his life.
So far this year At least 44 people – including several from Cuba – have drowned in the Rio Grande in their attempt to reach the United States irregularly: 13 at the Piedras Negras intersection, 15 at Eagle Pass, 10 at Acuña, and the rest in the area known as Del Río.
from the end of April The joint operation of the authorities of Coahuila and Texas begancalled Mirror to curb the migration phenomenon at the border through the Rio Grande.
This operation consists of deploying a strong security device along the river, particularly in the areas of Acuña and Piedras Negras, places often chosen by migrants to enter the United States.
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