A Cuban citizen lost his life to stab wounds in Tapachula, Chiapas, following a fight that broke out during a family gathering among cousins for reasons that remain unknown, according to reports from the Mexican press this Thursday.
According to additional sources, the incident occurred on Saturday, July 12, in the Manga de Clavo locality, in the northwestern area of the Chiapas city.
Unfortunately, what started as a family gathering turned into a stabbing that left the victim lifeless.
The circumstances and exact cause of the dispute that led to a fatal act of violence have not been disclosed.
The attacker fled the scene after delivering the stabbings, and the authorities were unable to apprehend him immediately.
The victim's body was transferred to the forensic medical service.
The authorities have not publicly disclosed the name of the deceased nor the identity of the attacker.
The Chiapas Immigrant Prosecutor's Office, an agency specialized in crimes involving migrants in the state, has taken on the investigation to clarify the circumstances of the crime and locate the perpetrator.
A pattern of increasing violence against Cubans in Tapachula
This homicide occurs in the context of ongoing violence that affects the large community of Cuban migrants concentrated in Tapachula.
On July 6, Maikol Enrique Rodríguez Perdomo, twenty years old, was shot in the back inside his own home in the Reforma neighborhood.
Three Honduran citizens - identified as Kensi Michell (30 years old); Bryan José (33); and Josué Geovanny (26) - were detained and made available to the Public Prosecutor's Office for injuries, firearm possession, and criminal association, as reported at the time regarding the Cuban injured by gunfire in Tapachula.
In April, officials from the municipal program Centinela beat and forcibly evicted Cuban migrants in Miguel Hidalgo Park, leaving at least four injured, including elderly individuals in their sixties and seventies.
One of the assailants, identified in images from the incident, has been suspended from his position.
In 2025, multiple kidnappings of Cubans in the region were also documented, with families paying ransoms of up to 10,000 dollars.
Thousands of Cubans stranded with no way out
Behind this spiral of violence lies a humanitarian crisis of significant proportions.
Since February 2026, the Trump administration has been sending between two and three weekly flights of deported Cubans directly to Chiapas, as part of an informal agreement that designates Mexico as the receiving country.
The mayor of Tapachula, Yamil Melgar, estimated in May that more than 10,000 Cubans remain stranded in the city, although other estimates place the figure around 6,000.
Civil organizations estimate that up to 60,000 migrants from various nationalities are trapped in the area.
According to the report "They Leave Us Here to Die," published by Human Rights Watch on May 27, between January 20, 2025, and March 9, 2026, 4,353 Cubans were deported to Mexico.
These migrants arrive without documents, money, belongings, or permission to work, in a city plagued by high violence and insufficient services.
Deported Cubans find themselves in a legal limbo: the Havana regime rejects repatriation flights, Mexico does not grant them regular immigration status, and their return to the United States is barred.
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