Families start burying murdered Guatemalan migrants

Families of a few of the 16 Guatemalan migrants killed close to the Mexico-US border in late January started burying their stays Saturday within the city of Comitancillo, the place 11 of the victims have been from.
The migrants’ charred our bodies arrived Friday night time to the area close to Guatemala’s border with Mexico after being despatched from the opposite aspect of Mexico, Reynosa, simply throughout the US border from Texas.
“No more. No more violence against migrants,” stated the Rev. Mario Aguilón Cardona at companies for mourners within the city’s soccer stadium.
Ricardo García stated his daughter Santa Cristina García, 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 a good girl,” stated Garcia.
The Guatemalan authorities declared three days of mourning.
The our bodies, together with three others, have been discovered piled in a charred pickup 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.
President Alejandro Giammattei stated Friday that his authorities remained in communication with Mexican authorities to make sure “those responsible for such a deplorable act” are punished. He stated the crime should be cleared up in order that nothing comparable occurs once more.
Relatives of the lifeless first raised the alarm that one thing horrible had occurred in Camargo. Because the our bodies had been burned, it took weeks for constructive identifications by way of DNA samples, however the households in Guatemala had already began mourning.
The households had all of the sudden misplaced communication with their migrating family round Jan. 21, and believed they’d been close to the realm the place Mexican authorities made the grisly discovery.
Giammattei confirmed this month that 5 Guatemalans had survived the assault and have been beneath safety within the United States.
The bloodbath raised reminiscences of one other migrant bloodbath in Tamaulipas in August 2010, when members of the Zetas cartel killed 72 migrants close to the city of San Fernando.