The family of a Nicaraguan boy who was found walking alone on the border between Mexico and USA, allegedly abandoned by human traffickers, recognized him and initiated the procedures for his repatriation.

In a video released days ago by the US Customs and Border Protection, a minor is observed asking an officer for help because, according to his account, the group with whom he had managed to cross the border since Mexico to United States he had left it abandoned.

The minor under 10 years old was recognized by his family in Nicaragua and identified as Wilton Eniel Gutierrez.

Vice President Rosario Murillo told official media that her government is making representations to Mexico and the United States to locate him. The minor was traveling with his mother, Meyling Obregón, whose whereabouts are unknown.

Murillo stated that information was requested from both countries in order to “locate Meyling Obregón and the child himself. We are also sending this request to the Interpol (International Police).”

“Can you help me? I came with a group and they dumped me and I don’t know where they are”, the child is heard saying to an officer, on a rural road in the state of Texas (USA).

The minor was crying and said he was scared. The US authorities reported that the boy is fine.

The inquiries made in Nicaragua Together with the minor’s father, Lázaro Gutiérrez, they determined that the boy was traveling with his 35-year-old mother.

Originally from the community of Muelle de los Bueyes, in the center of the country, both would have undertaken the trip to the United States on February 7, the father told the authorities.

The minor’s uncle, Misael Obregón, who resides in the United States, explained to a Nicaraguan digital medium that his relatives had been rejected at the border and deported to Mexico.

Back in Mexico, Misael said, mother and son were kidnapped by coyotes who, after a negotiation, released only the child.

In recent statements to the US media, Brian Hastings, head of the border patrol in the Rio Grande Valley, said he has evidence that many families voluntarily separate and send only children to try to cross again, after a first expulsion.

Murillo considered that the situation of this family is “sad.”

Many migrants, he pointed out, are carried away “sometimes by the illusion and mirage of seeking better living conditions because the world is difficult, especially with this pandemic.”

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