The Cuban Amauris Romero Despaigne, who had been reported missing last April in Cancun, Mexico, was found dead in the last hours according to posts on social media.
Several days ago, I made a post requesting shares in order to locate Amaury, who was in Cancun, Mexico. Unfortunately, he was found, but lifeless...," Cuban Yaite Lazo reported on Facebook this Monday.
RIP brother from the Isle of Youth, you didn't manage to achieve your dreams," he regretted in his heartfelt message. "This is the risk faced by every Cuban who risks their life leaving behind family, friends, in search of a better future. I am very sorry RIP, my deepest condolences to family and friends, a strong hug from a distance and I ask for mercy and compassion, my almighty God, for my family and other Cubans who are in Mexico."
Romero, a native of Isla de la Juventud, was last seen on April 30th at the port of Cancun, in the state of Quintana Roo. That day, he left for work during his usual hours, from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., and upon finishing, he headed to the rented house where he was staying, but he never arrived, as reported by AnDef Lescaille Leyva in the Facebook group "Cubans in Cancun-1", who was a neighbor of the young man in Cuba.
Distressed by his disappearance, family and friends raised the alarm on social media and made an urgent call to the community to provide information that would help find him. Mexican pages also echoed the event.
But it was not until this week that the fatal outcome emerged, although the circumstances in which the Cuban man died are still unknown, according to his relatives he was in Mexico in a migratory transit on his way to the United States.
Romero's death adds to the extensive list of Cubans who have lost their lives while making the journey to reach US soil in search of opportunities to improve their future, after leaving Cuba due to the severe systemic crisis affecting the country.
According to reports from recent months, several Cubans have died in traffic accidents, from natural causes, or murdered, highlighting the risks that immigrants from the island face when trying to rebuild their lives in other places.
Last month, the 26-year-old young man Eric Marcos Reyes Pupo, who was born in Puerto Padre, Las Tunas, was shot dead in Mexico, where he had arrived with the hope of entering the U.S. and starting a new chapter in his life by reuniting with his mother.
She also passed away before meeting one of her children, Erenia Victoria Escalona, 34 years old and from Manzanillo, Granma, who was a victim of a traffic accident within the facilities of the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) in May.
Enrique Gousson Cabrera, 52 years old, and Margarita Bea Martínez, 53, a Cuban couple native to Havana who were in Paramaribo, Suriname, were fatally run over by a car while traveling on a motorcycle in March.
A father originally from Santiago de Cuba was also stabbed to death in Mexico, where he had been waiting for two years for the CBP One appointment to enter the United States.
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