After the discovery of the body of a suspected migrant this Wednesday, he was stuck in some rocks Bravo RiverIn 2022, 44 people died in the irregular crossing from Mexico to the USA.
Officials from the Civil Defense and Fire Brigade conducted a riverside operation near the Morelos neighborhood of the border town of Piedras Negras, Coahuila state, to remove the lifeless body of the accused migrant, who was stuck between the rocks, according to local Mexican media Zócalo.
Following this rescue operation, the victim’s body was transferred to that state’s forensic medical service (SEMEFO) by order of the public prosecutor’s office.
Since early 2022 and up to this Wednesday, at least 44 migrants (including Cubans) have drowned in the treacherous waters of the Rio Grande, according to the aforementioned report.
Of these, 13 died at the Piedras Negras crossing; 15 in the Adlerpass; ten in Acuña and the rest in the area known as Del Río.
This Tuesday, the above media also reported that Mexican authorities managed to rescue another body of a suspected migrant who was swept away by the current.
Local fishermen saw the body floating near the river from a place called Las Agujas and immediately reported it to members of Grupo Beta, an organization set up by the Mexican government to protect and defend the human rights of migrants passing through that country, regardless of their citizenship or immigration status.
The body of this migrant was also transferred to SEMEFO headquarters in Coahuila state.
Several Cubans have lost their lives trying to cross the dangerous river that separates Mexico from the United States. In 2020, the lifeless body of 23-year-old Cuban Carlos Jorge Tomás Reyes was found in the Rio Grande.
In April 2021, another young Cuban trying to reach US soil died trying to swim across.
at the end of this year, CiberCuba reported the death of Cuban Jill Leyva Toledano25 who drowned trying to cross the river to reach the United States.
In March of this year it turned out like a Cuban immigrant Guillermo Alan Matos lost his Uruguayan wife and four-year-old son while attempting to cross the dangerous waters of the river towards the United States.
The crossing took place in Ciudad Acuña in the state of Coahuila. All family members entered the river together, but the young wife of Matos was swept away by the strong and treacherous current that claimed the lives of thousands of immigrants. Alessa Nadine’s Patino Rivero25, and her son Ishmaelwithout the Cubans being able to do anything for their loved ones.
At the end of this month it was also learned of the drowning of two Cubans, father and son, in that river. Luis Miguel Gonzalez Saez and his father Jose Luis, They were swept away by the current of the Rio Grande. attempting to reach US territory and died at the scene.
the body of Luis Miguel Gonzalez Saeznatural de placetas, Villa Klarawas found a week later after an operation and a call for help among Cubans living near the border.
However, these tragedies have not stopped the escalation of migrants who throw themselves into the waters of the border river every day to reach US territory.
This Wednesday it was announced that more than 300 Cuban migrants managed to cross the Rio Grande in just one day to reach United States territory.
The Cubans reached the banks of the Rio Grande camouflaged among local residents enjoying the river’s fresh waters to mitigate the high temperatures, and managed to bypass security measures put in place on the Mexican side, local media outlet Zócalo assured.
This weekend, a Mexican reporter from the town of Piedras Negras captured the moment when A group of Cuban immigrants, including a child, joined other groups of Central Americans to cross the Rio Grande.
Also this Tuesday ImpactoVisión Noticias reporterbroadcast the crossing live on social networks Another Cuban family with a minor to the United States, after a more than 20-day journey from Nicaragua near the border bridge in the Mexican city of Piedras Negras.
Along with about ten people from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, the family braved the river’s dangerous current with a girl on her alleged father’s shoulders.