Guatemala’s president is asking for justice after 19 charred our our bodies had been found near US-Mexico border in January.
Families of among the many 16 Guatemalan migrants killed near the Mexico-United States border in late January began burying their stays Saturday inside the metropolis of Comitancillo, the place 11 of the victims had been from.
The victims’ charred our our bodies arrived on Friday night on the realm near Guatemala’s border with Mexico after being despatched from the other facet of Mexico, Reynosa, merely all through the US border from Texas.
“No further. No further violence in opposition to migrants,” acknowledged Reverend Mario Aguilon Cardona at firms for mourners inside the metropolis’s soccer stadium.
Ricardo Garcia acknowledged his daughter Santa Cristina Garcia, 20, had gone north to earn money for an operation for her youthful sister. Her stays returned Friday in a coffin.
“She sacrificed herself for others. She was an excellent woman,” acknowledged Garcia.
Family members mourn all through the wake of Marvin Tomas, a Guatemalan migrant who was found murdered alongside completely different 18 people inside the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas in January [Johan Ordonez/AFP]
The Guatemalan authorities has declared three days of mourning.
The our our bodies, along with three others, had been found piled in a charred pick-up truck in Camargo, all through the Rio Grande from Texas, in an area that has been bloodied for years by turf battles between the remnants of the Gulf cartel and the earlier Zetas cartel.
A dozen Tamaulipas state cops had been arrested in reference to the killings.
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei acknowledged on Friday that his authorities remained in communication with Mexican authorities to ensure “these responsible for such a deplorable act” are punished.
He acknowledged the crime should be solved so that nothing associated happens as soon as extra.
People attend the wake of Rubesly Tomas Isidro in Las Flores village in Comitancillo, Guatemala, on March 13 [Johan Ordonez/AFP]
Kinfolk of the ineffective first raised the alarm that one factor horrible had occurred in Camargo.
Because of the our our bodies had been burned, it took weeks for constructive identifications through DNA samples, nonetheless the families in Guatemala had already started mourning.
The families had abruptly misplaced communication with their kin spherical January 21, and believed they’d been near the realm the place Mexican authorities made the grisly discovery.
Giammattei confirmed this month that 5 Guatemalans had survived the assault and had been beneath security inside the US.
