Six Cuban migrants in transit through Guatemala are detained

TheNational Civil Police of Guatemala (PNC) arrestedsix Cuban migrants who crossed the borders of that Latin American country irregularly.

"In another operation at kilometer 230 Inter-American route in the jurisdiction of Esquipulas Chiquimula, 51 people from Venezuela were located, 8 from Ecuador, 7 from Colombia,6 from Cuba and one from Peru, who entered Guatemalan territory irregularly," says a statement from the PNC on Facebook.

Theirregular migrants They were detained by the Guatemalan authorities and transferred to a center under the supervision of the Guatemalan Migration Institute on the Agua Caliente Border, in Esquipulas.

In one day, the Guatemalan authorities attended and detained126 people of different nationalities in that sector that is on a migratory route.

Themigration crisis in Central America continues and Cubans continue to have a strong presence in the region.

This week dozens of Cuban, Venezuelan and Haitian migrants saturated the offices of the National Commission for Aid to Refugees (Comar) in Tapachula, Chiapas, to obtain pre-registration that would allow themapply for asylum in Mexico.

Most of the migrants were traveling with their entire families, arriving from Guatemala a few days ago. The situation to sustain themselves economically is unsustainable in Mexico, and they must spend long periods there until they can cross into the United States.

A recent report in the Mexican press indicates thatmore than 2,000 migrant women They work in nightclubs in Tapachula, as prostitutes, and most of them are Cuban.