Juarez City.- The Central American migrant Douglas Alexander Varela Carias, 45 years old, was the man murdered on Friday, May 17, on the shore of the Rio Grande, after trying to reach the United States, across the border between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Honduras, through the General Directorate of Protection of Honduran Migrants, was in charge of searching for the family to carry out the procedures to recover the body.
Yesterday, the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Chihuahua (FGE) was asked for information about the investigation into the migrant’s homicide, but as of press time it had not released any progress regarding the case.
A group of Venezuelan migrants who were on the banks of the Rio Grande on the morning of May 17 said that they had met him days before at the border while they were all trying to enter the United States and that they called him “Honduras” due to his nationality.
They said that the last time they saw him was that morning, at approximately 2:00 in the morning, when he crossed the metal fence and spikes guarded by Texas agents on the edge of the Rio Grande, but they did not see him again until around at 5:00 in the morning, when a migrant woman told them that her Honduran friend was dying on the bank of the river.
“He was talking to all of us, walking around. He said: I’m going to help you, I’m going to help you. He had already opened the first door (the barbed fence), he went forward and we didn’t see him anymore, when we saw him it was in the morning, all beaten up, but he couldn’t speak anymore”, “he had this sunk, he had that stuffed inside,” said one of the South Americans while touching his nasal septum.
He suffered a head injury
According to the autopsy carried out by forensic personnel, the migrant died from blows that caused head trauma, in addition to the blows to the nose reported by the migrants.
Without knowing if he was hit inside the United States or upon returning to the Mexican board, the foreigners decided to withdraw from international marker number 39, where Mexican authorities were guarding the body, due to fear of suffering reprisals from those responsible for his death.
When he lost his life, the Central American was wearing a Venezuelan t-shirt and carrying a backpack in which state authorities found a Bible, talcum powder, a pair of tennis shoes, pants and t-shirts.
Back to his country
On May 28, 11 days after his death, the government of Honduras issued a public notice to contact “acquaintances or relatives” of the person originally from the Municipality of the Central District, in the department of Francisco Morazán, urgently, through a public notice created a day before with your photograph.
According to FGE personnel, the Central American’s body left the Forensic Medical Service (Semefo) on Thursday, June 6, heading to his country, 20 days after his death.
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