Tapachula, Mexico .- The Mexican Police on Tuesday found 513 immigrants in inhumane conditions in two trucks passing through the southern state of Chiapas.
The two drivers were arrested. Immigrants are mostly Guatemalans, but there are also people from El Salvador, Ecuador, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Nepal, India, Japan and China.
The operation was conducted in a road near the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez. Among immigrants, detected with X-ray, a pregnant woman and a girl of 11 years.
In one of the trucks traveled 240 people: 211 Guatemalans, 19 Salvadorans, six Ecuadorians, three Chinese and one Japanese.
On the other had 273 people, of which 199 were from Guatemala, 28 from El Salvador, 26 Ecuador, 12 from India, six of Nepal, one of Honduras and one from the Dominican Republic.
Chiapas is in the path of immigrants crossing the southern border from Mexico bound for the United States.
People traffickers charge thousands dollars for the trip, but often leave them abandoned or given to organized crime groups, which then require payment of a ransom from their families for free.
Last year 72 Central and South American immigrants were killed on a ranch in the municipality of San Fernando, in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, by alleged members of Los Zetas.
In the same town last April found 183 corpses pits, of which most are still unidentified.
Lissette Garcia
RosasSinEspinas
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