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Visits certified by the ACPM/OJD.Of the 53 fatalities found in an abandoned truck in Texas, some have no documents, their relatives are far away, other relatives cannot be located, and they need to be matched with fingerprints and blood samples.So far, four people have been arrested.Meanwhile, a new caravan left this Friday from Tapachula, Mexico, to the US, and the IOM reports that almost 500 migrants have died on the routes to the United States so far this year.Four days after the tragedy of the 53 dead migrants (out of 67) due to suffocation, dehydration and overcrowding in a truck without air conditioning in the suffocating heat of Texas, consular care continues for the relatives of the victims from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador that have contacted officials.However, not all the bodies have been identified.The Mexican consulate in San Antonio, Texas, has already contacted (until this Friday morning, July 1) the families of 22 of the 27 Mexicans who were in the truck, but has not been able to locate the families of the five remaining.The consul general of Mexico in San Antonio, Rubén Minutti Zanatta, explained this Friday to the Mexican media 'Imagen Radio' that "in 19 of the cases the contact has been with direct relatives, while the remaining three have been with distant family or acquaintances. ” and explained that “documents were found linking the people who died in the trailer with their nationality.”▶🎙 Rubén Minutti Zanatta, Consul General of Mexico in San Antonio #Texas, tells us that the Consulate has already contacted the families of 15 of the 27 Mexican migrants who died in the abandoned trailer in Texas... In #interview with @beltrandelrio pic.twitter.com/ClWHscO6iiFor their part, the consular authorities of Honduras maintain that there are five compatriots killed in the trailer and not 14, as the records of the National Institute of Migration of Mexico (INM) still maintain, which has generated confusion among the Honduran population. .The Deputy Foreign Minister of Honduras, Tony García, reported this Friday morning to the 'Voice of America' media outlet from San Antonio, that “five Honduran identification documents were found that were not with the bodies, but which suggests that they are our compatriots.The anguish is great”.Honduran Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina announced that the presidential plane has been made available to repatriate the remains of deceased immigrants and that, if necessary, the repatriation could even be completed on private flights.Vice Chancellor of Honduras, Tony García, gives details of the process of identifying the victims of the abandoned truck with 64 migrants in San Antonio, Texas.pic.twitter.com/LPJTyb9ZS2The other identified bodies correspond, according to the INM, to two Salvadorans and seven Guatemalans.However, the figure may vary because the documents, fingerprints and blood samples of their relatives in the countries of origin are still being compared.Between two and 12 fatalities remain to be identified while the reports of the deceased Hondurans are clarified.The testimonies of the families of the victimsFamilies of the victims in Mexico and Honduras have recounted the stories of their deceased loved ones.In the house of Jazmín Nayarith Bueso Núñez in El Progreso, Honduras, the prayers of his family were not heard.This Thursday it was confirmed that he was among the dead in San Antonio.Bueso Núñez, 37, suffered from lupus, a disease that cost him his job and whose treatment was very expensive, his family said.A friend offered to help him go to the United States where he hoped to find a better paying job to help support the 15-year-old son he left with his parents and to find treatment for his illness.Her father, José Santos Bueso, tried to dissuade her before leaving on June 3."No, Dad, this is a special trip," she told him."'I was there, daughter,' her father replied, adding, "There are no special trips. The only special trip was air travel with a visa."Jazmín was in Laredo the last time he spoke to his family when he told them that the smugglers were going to take their phones before continuing, so he wouldn't be able to communicate for a while.Other stories of migrants are told by their impoverished families.The mother of two young Mexicans, Yovani and Jair Valencia Olivares, tells how hard it was for her to let them go.The quota to cross the border was 9,000 dollars, as her family narrates.The health condition of the survivorsOf the 11 survivors from Mexico and Guatemala, two would be released this Friday.The Guatemalan Foreign Minister, Mario Búcaro, assured that the situation of the three compatriots who survived in the container of the vehicle is "extremely complex", one of them in a complicated health condition and the other two stable.The foreign minister commented that the only way in which Guatemala can avoid migration is by generating employment in the Central American country.Every year, according to the EFE agency, the authorities estimate that some 300,000 Guatemalans try to reach the United States in search of better living conditions due to poverty and violence.How are the investigations for the death of migrants going?Two of the four arrested as allegedly responsible for the death of the 53 migrants are Mexican.If they are found guilty of human trafficking and homicide, they could be sentenced to death.The truck driver is known to have appeared in federal court.The INM detailed on Thursday that the authorities identified the driver of the trailer as Homero "N", 45, who posed as one of the survivors to avoid his arrest.According to Francisco Garduño, commissioner of the INM of Mexico, "the Attorney General's Office (FGR) opened an investigation folder for the death of Mexican migrants and that, together with the INM, collaborates with the federal authorities of the United States to identify the victim. network of human traffickers responsible for this tragedy.”Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Presidency of Mexico, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, published on his social networks this week that "the trailer left a house in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas" and asserted that the truck found last Monday "operated with plates from Texas, passed two security checkpoints and never crossed the border.The authorities assume, for now, that the migrants had to remain locked up in the truck for several hours, in what has been considered the greatest human trafficking tragedy in recent decades in the United States.Nearly 500 migrants have died so far in 2022 on the US-Mexico border.USAAccording to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the American continent, shaken by social and economic tensions and prolonged political crises such as those in Nicaragua or Venezuela, is a sea of ​​dangerous routes for thousands of people who want to seek a better life.The death of the 53 migrants increased the number of migrant fatalities so far in 2022 to 493. For the IOM, "however, this figure remains an underreporting due to various problems in data collection ".Many of the dead migrants come from countries with a high number of asylum seekers.One of the authors of the IOM report on Migrants in the Americas in 2021, Edwin Viales, points out that "we cannot forget that each number is a human being with a family who may never know what happened to them."New migrant caravan leaves the southern border of MexicoFrom Tapachula, on the southern border of Mexico with Guatemala, a new caravan of migrants left for the United States.They demand conditions to travel safely and avoid a tragedy like the one in Texas.The new caravan left this Friday and they point out that there are 400 pregnant women and 1,000 children who will travel along the coastal highway in order to reach the immigration customs office in Huixtla, Chiapas.Jonathan Enrique Ávila, a migrant from Venezuela, estimates that some 8,000 people from countries such as Venezuela and Haiti, regions such as Africa and Asia, and even accompanied by Mexicans who also seek to cross into the United States, could walk."We are asking the Mexican authorities to protect us on the highways, to go with us at all times because it is a peaceful caravan march," Ávila said.Migrants stranded in southern Mexico have shown solidarity with the families of the 53 migrants who died in San Antonio.These caravans reflect the record migratory flow to the United States, where the US Customs and Border Protection Office detected more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico in fiscal year 2021, which ended on December 30. last september.With EFE, AP and local mediaNewsletterSign up for France 24 newslettersTake international news everywhere with you.Download the France 24 appTexas: At Least 50 Dead Immigrants Found Inside Abandoned TruckDozens of migrants found dead in Texas, far from being an isolated caseThe migrant caravan broke up in southern Mexico but continues on its wayThe most vulnerable, in the midst of the battle for and against abortion in the US.Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes the first African-American woman on the US Supreme Court.The US Supreme Court deals a setback in the fight against climate changeGhislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for recruiting minors for Jeffrey EpsteinAbortion: Supreme Court takes US back "to the beginning of the 20th century" legallyUnited States: Joe Biden signs the bipartisan law for the regulation of firearmsUS Congress Passes Gun Bill;only Biden's signature is missingThe keys to the US Supreme Court ruling against abortion“The health and lives of women are at risk”: Biden after annulment of the right to abortionThe United States Supreme Court struck down the protection of the right to abortionThe US Senate gave the green light to a bill to control the carrying of weaponsThe content you requested does not exist or is no longer available.