Four Cubans, who were traveling on a bus through the state of Veracruz, in Mexico, were detained by state police agents.
Although the names of the Cubans were not revealed, it was known that 15 Guatemalan migrants, seven Hondurans, five Ecuadorians, three Nicaraguans and three Turks were traveling with them, according to information offered bylocal media.
The police operations were carried out between January 25 and 28 in several municipalities of Veracruz, where57 people of different nationalities were arrested, mostly from Guatemala and Honduras.
The 57 migrants were placed at the disposal of the authorities of the Mexican National Migration Institute (INM).
Recently,A man suspected of acting as a coyote was arrested, after being caught transporting three Cuban migrants in irregular conditions.
The Cubans, along with another person of Venezuelan nationality, were intercepted in a vehicle on the Arriaga-Tapanatepec section, Chiapas, after an anonymous complaint about trafficking of undocumented people.
The driver also said he was of Venezuelan origin. The four migrants he was transporting did not have the documentation required for their legal stay in Mexico.
The Attorney General's Office (FGR) of Mexico opened an investigation against the detainee for the crime of transporting undocumented immigrants for profit and evasion of immigration controls.
During last December,More than 25 thousand Cubans entered the United States through land and sea borders, the highest figure since the end of 2022.
The Border Patrol said in its latest report thatA total of 25,060 migrants from the island arrived by sea and land during the last month of last year, and of them more than17,000 crossed the Mexican border.
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