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Migrants defy the alert for rains and cyclones to cross the southern border of Mexico
Migrants defy the alerts of the Mexican authorities for the possible first cyclone of the season and the rains of up to 250 millimeters forecasted in Chiapas, a state bordering Central America, to cross the southern border of Mexico despite the flood of rivers and floods.
Civil Protection authorities of the Government of Chiapas issued an ‘Orange’ alert for the rains in the face of the possible formation of the first tropical storms of the Atlantic season, so some migrants have paused their way, but others do not stop to advance towards the United States.
“We expose ourselves to everything, to rains, to the fact that we are going to get sick, a flu, an annoyance or something of the flu that can affect us a lot, the journey of everything is delayed,” Honduran Gabriel told EFE, who entered Tapachula, the main city of Mexico’s border with Guatemala, with about 10 compatriots.
But, instead of stopping, this migrant and his companions said that they will take advantage of this storm of rain to walk through Chiapas, avoid the Mexican authorities and reach Mexico City, where they will then continue to their final destination, the United States.
“The rain stops us for a moment, by the hand of God we will always continue. At the moment we are looking for a place to pass the rain,” he said.
The situation illustrates the crisis due to the migratory flow in Mexico, where the Government intercepted a record of almost 1.4 million irregular migrants from January to May, an increase of about 650% over the same period last year.
On the other hand, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) has warned of the possible formation between this Tuesday and Wednesday of the first cyclone in the Atlantic season and that it would make landfall in the Gulf of Mexico states.
For days, migrants such as the Venezuelan Carlos Luis Vendible have walked under the rains on the border of Mexico with Guatemala, where the Mexican authorities try to direct them to the shelters and warn of the dangers they will face due to the rainfall.
“Right now I will have to go out to the market to look for work and survive day by day for the food of the people who accompany us, we ask the Government of Mexico to continue to support us,” he told EFE.
But the South American said that the migrants are suspicious of the alerts of Mexican agents to the operations to stop them.
“(We ask) that the Migration police do not bother us so much, sometimes they grab us, humiliate us and insult us, that they are more humanitarian, we are not emigrating because we want to migrate, but because of the difficult economic crisis of our country,” he said.
The man is accompanied by his son, his niece, his partner and other Ecuadorians, who are now stranded in Tapachula to know how they can be regularized.
The Secretary of Municipal Civil Protection, Herbert Antonio Enrique Schroeder Bejarano, asked migrants and locals not to be exposed to the risks and to avoid settling on the banks of the rivers, including the Suchiate, which divides Mexico from Guatemala.
“Everyone has been urged, we are talking to the general population, where they, migrants, also enter. They don’t know what the situation prevails here, the risks and the danger we have,” he said.
International
Austrian man arrested in Croatia with deceased woman as passenger in his car
A 65-year-old Austrian citizen was arrested at a border checkpoint in Croatia after attempting to enter the country in his car with a deceased woman sitting as a passenger, police announced on Tuesday.
The man was detained in a routine check in late November in Gunja, a border area separating Bosnia from Croatia, the police told AFP. Suspicious because they saw “no consciousness or movement” from the passenger, Croatian officers called a doctor, who confirmed the death of the 83-year-old woman, also Austrian, according to her identification.
The woman’s relationship to the suspect is unknown. She had died in Bosnia, and the man intended to repatriate her body to Austria to “avoid the formalities related to transporting a corpse,” according to the police. Croatian media reported that the man was her legal guardian.
Once her death was confirmed, a funeral service took charge of the body.
International
Colombian nationals arrested for human trafficking and disappearance of migrant boat
Colombian authorities arrested two nationals accused of the illegal trafficking of migrants to the United States and of endangering lives due to the disappearance of a boat with 40 people aboard, U.S. Department of Justice officials reported on Tuesday.
Hernando Manuel de la Cruz Rivera Orjuela, 52, and Luis Enrique Linero Pinto, 40, both Colombian citizens, were arrested on December 13 in Colombia at the request of the United States for their alleged involvement in a “transnational human trafficking operation,” the department said in a statement.
According to the charges, the detainees were transporting migrants to San Andrés Island in the Caribbean, where they would then be taken by boat to Nicaragua. The goal was to reach the United States through Central America and Mexico.
The accused are said to have advised the migrants on how to reach San Andrés Island, where they personally received them, arranged accommodations, and “took them to the boats that transported them to Nicaragua so they could enter the United States illegally,” the statement reads.
“These defendants put several migrants on the boat that disappeared off the coast of Nicaragua in 2023,” said Deputy Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, as cited in the statement.
Both men are “directly and personally responsible for the illicit trafficking of migrants on that vessel,” according to the indictment dated October 23.
International
Homemade landmine explosion in Michoacán kills two soldiers, injures five
Two soldiers were killed and five others were injured by the explosion of homemade landmines planted by a criminal group in a mountainous area of the Mexican state of Michoacán (west), the Secretary of Defense reported on Tuesday.
The attack occurred on Monday morning in the municipality of Cotija, a border area between Michoacán and the state of Jalisco, when the military was conducting a reconnaissance mission after receiving information about an armed camp in the area, explained Secretary General Ricardo Trevilla.
“At that moment, an improvised explosive device detonated. Unfortunately, two soldiers lost their lives, and five others were injured,” the military leader detailed. The affected soldiers were airlifted to hospitals in the region by a military helicopter, while the rest of the team continued with the reconnaissance of the area.
Trevilla stated that before the explosion, the military unit had located the dismembered bodies of three people, and upon continuing the mission, they confirmed the camp was abandoned.
Asked about the individuals responsible for placing the explosives, the general suggested they could be criminals linked to the local group Cárteles Unidos, which operates in Michoacán and uses these tactics in their territorial dispute with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the country.
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