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A group of young migrants from Guatemala are brutally murdered in northern Mexico.

On the night of January 22nd to 23rd, abruptly on a country road outside the town of Camargo. The police found 19 bullet-riddled and carbonized bodies next to two burned-out cars. Some are said to have been cut up.

It is still unclear what exactly happened that night. The 17-year-old Robelsi was with fourteen other young migrants from Guatemala as well as two coyotes (smugglers) and two local guides when they came across twelve police officers from a special unit in the state of Tamaulipas.

According to media reports, the police confessed to having shot the migrants a few days ago. However, they deny having dismembered and burned the bodies.

Tamaulipas is considered to be one of the most dangerous regions in Mexico. There have already been massacres of migrants here several times. In addition, two drug cartels are fighting for supremacy in the border region.

Politicians and police officers should get involved. Perhaps the police mistook the migrants that night for members of a drug cartel or they are active as traffickers themselves and wanted to eliminate the competition, as local media speculated.

“Whether young or old, indigenous or not - anyone who can leave Guatemala leaves, to Europe or the United States, to Costa Rica, no matter where. The main thing is to get away. "

For generations, a youth has been leaving Guatemala every seventeen minutes, and the tragedy of Tamaulipas will not change that.

The “sueño americano” reported by those who made it to the USA and who are now sending their families money for a better house with running water and electricity as well as for milk and eggs is too strong.