Mexican authorities on Sunday found another lifeless body floating in the reeds of the Rio Grande, complicating recovery.
According to a report by local media Impacto Local on Facebook, Apparently it is another migrant who would have tried to get to the US side from river bank Sex and nationality unknown.
“Recovery of the body becomes impossible due to its geographical location, our drone manages to reach the body floating lifeless in the waters of the river in Piedras Negras,” the report pointed out.
The journalist’s drone managed to capture the place where the body was stranded only one hand can be seen and what looks like a clock.
It also shows the members of the beta team Rescue team from the National Migration Institute trying to reach the site.
so far at least this year Fifty bodies were found in the Rio Grande.
However, many supporters of the news portal point out that the number is higher because many of the drowned are not found.
The reporter claims so Not only migrants can be found in the river: also victims of organized crime and members of cartels that dominate the area, so Each finding requires extensive investigations.
Piedras Negras has recently become one of the most visited places for those trying to reach the United States from Central America.
Cubans, Venezuelans, Colombians and Central Americans arrive daily at Piedras Negras in Coahuila to brave the currents of the water and reach Texas.
However, not all could serve the purpose of reaching US territory.
Last March, a Cuban father and son, both from Placetas, drowned in Villa Clara; and at the end of this month, another young man, also from Villa ClaraHe died the same way. Bodies of Hondurans and Colombians were also found.
In March, irregular entry of Cubans across the southern border of the United States reached more than 32,000 people, a migratory exodus comparable only to the Mariel of 1980.
In the first quarter of this year 2022, more than 78,752 Cuban immigrants arrived in the United States, most of them as a result of the opening of Cuba’s borders and the free visas decreed by the Nicaraguan government for residents of the island.
Last Wednesday more than 300 Cubans crossed Piedras Negras in a single day.
In January, local outlet El Pitazo explained that despite the fact that the Rio Grande is flat, there are sections where it suddenly reaches 2.5 meters and its flow increases steadily and without warning when the Amistad dam opens , to irrigate the crops and to supply electricity.
During rainy seasons, this operation is performed more frequently to lower the water level in the dam.
In addition, he said, debris rolls along the riverbed at the various crossing points, and its banks are littered with inflatable rafts and foam floats used by other migrants who have crossed, making transit difficult. In addition, the newspaper warned, there are also crocodiles on the slopes of the river, posing a danger to those crossing.