They arrest six Cuban migrants abandoned on a bus in Mexico

Mexican authorities detained six Cuban migrants on Friday who were abandoned on a bus in Moloacán, a municipality in the state of Veracruz.

The Cubans were part of a group of 313 people (173 men, 77 women and 63 minors) from, in addition to Cuba, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Bangladesh, China, Ecuador and Nicaragua.

They were all traveling in two buses that were left to their fate by their drivers in a gap on the Las Choapas-Nanchital highway, where they were located by agents from the National Migration Institute (INM), the Secretariat of National Defense and the National Guard. who helped them.

In a statement, the INM reported another action in which another 58 migrants from Guatemala and El Salvador were found aboard the box of a cargo truck.

In total, on Friday the Mexican immigration authorities assisted 371 people of different nationalities who were in an irregular status in the country.

"All adults were transferred to the Acayucan Immigration Station to continue with their immigration administrative process, while minors and family groups remained under the guardianship of the authorities in charge of their protection," the agency stated.

At the beginning of the month, a group of nine migrants, including Cubans, were rescued in a hotel in the Mexican state of Puebla, where the coyote left them abandoned who had promised to transfer them to the United States.

The migrants were two women, three men and a child under six years old from Cuba and Ecuador, local media reported.

The municipal police of Puebla transferred the undocumented immigrants to the victim care area of the Secretariat of Citizen Security and municipal police, where they were going to remain detained.

In mid-December, a family of Cuban migrants made up of nine people was rescued after getting lost in a mountainous area of the town of Ejido Jacume, in the Mexican municipality of Tecate, in Baja California, during the journey to reach the United States border.