Op 30 years as a coyote, José has cruised migrants to the United States through all the possible media “except in airplanes on cliff tracks”.
And commenza a enumerar: “In containers; in trucks that nlevan naranjas, clavados como se dice vulgarmente: la tarima va arriba llena de tomates o de jabones y abajo van clavados todos. people. If you can use the bus, the train, the private car as the Mexicans, the taxis … There are different and milestones for cruising the migrants “.
José [no es su nombre real] has 50 years and access to tell his story (through a change of day and time) on the frontier between Guatemala and Mexico, in La Mesilla, Huehuetenango department, celebrating the capture of the first countries of emigration.
Also define your office: “For the community we are angels, we are the people who pay us to pay a loan, for the sake of poverty. And for the lies, we are a criminal”.
Su negotio le da para vivir, and including tiene “algunas propiedades”, dice; the key to its success is to have established a coyote network to reach Mexico from the north.
“I consider people from South America, Colombians, Ecuadorians, Central Americans, and me the entrant. Pongo a trabajar a mis guias y los guias van entregándolos a otro grupo”, explains.
[Así burlan los coyotes a la Patrulla Fronteriza y esto es lo que cobran por un viaje a veces mortal]
A coyote nunca pierde
For $ 8,500, the offer is made to migrants who have had the opportunity to do so. It is a difficult amount to pay for women who pay their dues precisely because of lack of resources, so José can guarantee it. For example, property notices: “I have land, houses, vehicles, property. Do not rob me; at the moment they pay me, I am the developer”.
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It will be a practice established by some coyotes in Central America to guarantee the payment.
In 2014, José Rolando Morales, originally from San Pedro Pinula, in Guatemala, countered a debt with his coyote of 11,600 dollars, the price due to the United States along with other new countries. As a guarantee, the debtor is to integrate into his house, recalls his husband Lorena: “On that day, the coyote presented us with a license for the firms we will write our cases and the years”.
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In 2015, the body of Morales and its companions were found in a cliffhanger in Güemez, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Lorena recovers the house, loses time to her husband forever.
There is one more to a large list of tragedies.
In 2010, 74 migrants were executed at a booth in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The venders, the colocaron front a wall and the balearon. In the past, 19 calculators have been found dead in Camargo, Tamaulipas, the majority of Guatemalan migrants.
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Migrants masacrados and claves de pago
The massacres of migrant workers, José assured, because the coyote had not paid the price of the crime organized to get to its territory.
“If one does not pay, there is a problem with the mafia”, explains, “and they do not have the alma mater to descend the meter to one in an acid tambourine (…) These are your country, ¿ who did you advertise? what did you ask about it? If there is a wall, if it is acoustic, here is the end of the road “.
Once the cobra cards are in place, they form a contrast with the payer. A veces, dobbeltsteen José, son pulsas de colores. Other times there are dead bodies in the trucks, the lights like the ones used by the patrols. The carcass was painted with a color or the driver left a belt.
“Entonces ya saben, cuando les dan esa cinta, cuando les dan ese color es porque ya pagaron”, dobbeltsteen.
Además de pagar a los karteles, explica que también debe abonar sobornos: “Cuando le pagamos a un federal oa un migrajon, no estamos hablando de 5,000 o 10,000 pesos. Estamos hablando de 50,000 mexicanos (2,500 dolar) en adelante. Y hay gente also that is not for sale “.
The inside of the truck
Between 2014 and 2019, according to official figures, there were 2,000 migrants arriving in Mexico on their United States road. The most attractive states for migrants are Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Veracruz and Chiapas. One loses the life of mane of the cards, and hammers, sed, hypothermia or dehydration.
[Ciudad Juárez, la tierra donde se mueren los sueños de tantos inmigrantes: “¿Por qué nos engañaron, por qué?”]
Quienes peor lo pasan son los niños, dice José.
“Who needs to have a niece de ir arrinconado en una caja de tomato, de tenerse que orinar en su propion pantalón tres o cuatro veces, un nino”, explica, “de estar pidiendo comida donde no hay, de estar pidiendo agua donde no hay “.
And the women.
“The majority are abused by the coyotes. The amenazan. If they do not have sex with them, the days of tiradas. Entonces ceden. And if some are familiar with the llama and the questions will come, they say” Here I see well, not at all “, account.
He, assuredly, never touched a woman: “Nee, tengo hijas y tengo madre”.
The United States Embassy in Guatemala has launched a social media campaign to convene Guatemalans who are reluctant to emigrate. In it, a woman is related to the truck that needs to be made and will be engaged by coyotes.
“We are angels and criminals”
José organizes trayectos of entre oko 15 days of duration, dice. The more “cabron” of the road is the path to the desert.
“Even though I’ve had a double love affair, I’ve had a hard time, because I’ve been in a situation where I’ve quit one, if I quit all of them, I prefer to lose to one or two that I lose to all. group “, explains.
At the time of cruising to the United States, sometimes only two days later, when he was not sure he had to wait until a month and a half. On other occasions, Patrol Fronteriza arrested them.
In these cases, in order to avoid being trafficked by a person trafficking offense, which will increase penalties, it has always been said that it is part of a group of migrants, and those who are involved in the deletion:
“If anyone reveals that I’m the coyote, some of you will tell me that you are working for me,” he said.
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In all its years of coyote, it has detained the detention centers with the Barack Obama administration and also with Donald Trump, in Arizona and Texas, but could think of working in the same way: “Any governing body can take the steps to enter, “They are with our politics and ours with ours”.
Jenny Corado and José Corado collaborate with Guatemala on this report.