Guatemala’s president is asking for justice after 19 charred our bodies have been discovered close to US-Mexico border in January.
Households of among the 16 Guatemalan migrants killed close to the Mexico-United States border in late January started burying their stays Saturday within the city of Comitancillo, the place 11 of the victims have been from.
The victims’ charred our bodies arrived on Friday evening on the area close to Guatemala’s border with Mexico after being despatched from the opposite facet of Mexico, Reynosa, simply throughout the US border from Texas.
“No extra. No extra violence in opposition to migrants,” mentioned Reverend Mario Aguilon Cardona at companies for mourners within the city’s soccer stadium.
Ricardo Garcia mentioned his daughter Santa Cristina Garcia, 20, had gone north to earn cash for an operation for her youthful sister. Her stays returned Friday in a coffin.
“She sacrificed herself for others. She was an excellent lady,” mentioned Garcia.
The Guatemalan authorities has declared three days of mourning.
The our bodies, together with three others, have been discovered piled in a charred pick-up truck in Camargo, throughout the Rio Grande from Texas, in an space that has been bloodied for years by turf battles between the remnants of the Gulf cartel and the previous Zetas cartel.
A dozen Tamaulipas state cops have been arrested in reference to the killings.
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei mentioned on Friday that his authorities remained in communication with Mexican authorities to make sure “these liable for such a deplorable act” are punished.
He mentioned the crime have to be solved in order that nothing comparable occurs once more.
Kin of the useless first raised the alarm that one thing horrible had occurred in Camargo.
As a result of the our bodies had been burned, it took weeks for optimistic identifications by means of DNA samples, however the households in Guatemala had already began mourning.
The households had all of a sudden misplaced communication with their kinfolk round January 21, and believed that they had been close to the world the place Mexican authorities made the grisly discovery.
Giammattei confirmed this month that 5 Guatemalans had survived the assault and have been underneath safety within the US.