San Salvador, Apr 9 (EFE).- The Vice Minister of Diaspora and Human Mobility of the Foreign Ministry of El Salvador, Cindy Portal, said this Sunday that the Government of the Central American country demands the resignation of those responsible for Mexico’s migration policies after the death of 7 salvadorans in a fire at an immigration station.
“Above all, we are also demanding the resignation of the people who are responsible for Mexico’s immigration policy,” said the official at a press conference in which the delivery of the bodies of the victims to their relatives in the territory was reported. Salvadoran.
On the night of March 27, a fire at the center of the National Migration Institute, on the Mexico-United States border, killed 40 migrants, including 6 Hondurans, 7 Salvadorans, 18 Guatemalans, 7 Venezuelans, and one Colombian, an incident that the Salvadoran government describes it as a “State crime”.
Portal stressed that from the Salvadoran government “we are demanding that those guilty of this crime be able to pay with jail, that the (Mexican) Prosecutor’s Office do the work that corresponds to it to carry out an exhaustive investigation.”
In addition, he indicated that they have requested that “the survivors be part of the technical file of the investigation.”
“Our country is and will be very aware of each of the advances that are made in this country (Mexico), because we do not want this fact to remain and be one more that remains in impunity,” he added.
The vice minister indicated that this is not the first case in which the death of Salvadoran migrants in Mexican territory has been reported and that “there are many cases that have remained in impunity and that we are requesting compensation for the damages.”
He recalled that in 2010, in the massacre of 72 migrants, 14 Salvadorans were killed, that in 2011 the bodies of two of their compatriots were found in clandestine graves in Tamaulipas, and the deaths of Victoria Salazar and César Adonay at the hands of state agents.
According to Portal, those who died in the fire are all men, between the ages of 35 and 40, who are from the departments of Sonsonate, Chalatenango, La Libertad and San Salvador.
He indicated that 5 more people were injured in the fire, of which 2 are hospitalized, in addition 3 women survived and “continued their way to the United States.”
