The only fatal victim of a serious traffic accident that occurred this Thursday in Guatemala has not yet been officially identified. The charred body could belong to the driver of the vehicle that burned after a rollover on the route between Tecún Umán and Ocos in San Marcos, or one of the 20 Cuban migrants who were inside.
The Cuban embassy in Guatemala told 14ymedio that it cannot grant a position until it has official information, “a passport or documents certifying that they are Cuban.” “We have been in contact with the authorities,” but they said they had no confirmation about the victim’s identity, although a media outlet said the deceased was Cuban, “without being sure of knowing his nationality.”
“So far there is no reliable information that tells us that the people are Cubans,” he emphasized. Prensa Libre also published this Tuesday: “It is not known whether he is Guatemalan or one of the migrants.”
“So far there is no reliable information that tells us that the people are Cubans”
The Guatemalan Red Cross, which treated the injured at the scene, reported on its social networks that it had “stabilized and transferred” four of them to the Malacatán National Hospital, where they remained on Friday, without giving their names.
Although an employee at the hospital center refused to give this newspaper the names of the injured, claiming that “they will only be passed on to relatives who show up at the hospital,” local media Unired offered Canal 21 – which claimed a Cuban migrant had died – to a list of rescued migrants. Among them are two children, Lian Cruz Mora, three years old, and Mía Abreu, six years old. The rest are: Lisey Mora (23 years), Yara Sarís (43 years), Julio Porto (57 years), Anabel Rodríguez (36 years), Floralma Rey (33 years), Miguel Rivera (36 years). ), Gabriella? Alemán (19), José Rodríguez (54), Reynaldo Galván (31), Lili Abreu (36) and Suleidy Blanco (27).
This hospital was reported on the same day of the accident by some Facebook users who claimed that the driver and a co-pilot of one of the ambulances they sent with license plate I981BBG charged each of the migrants $25 to get closer to them to the hospital border with Mexico.
The center itself issued a statement ensuring that assistance was provided to “a woman with several children who asked for help because they were dehydrated.”
Guatemala is a natural passage for thousands of migrants seeking to reach U.S. territory. The migration also recorded 235 requests for refuge from natives of the island, still fewer than Honduras (1,352), El Salvador (1,264), Nicaragua (839) and Venezuela (369).
According to official data, 1,453 irregular migrants, including 45 Cubans, were expelled from Guatemalan territory from January 1 to August 31.
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