Nicaragua manages the repatriation of the migrant child abandoned in the United States desert

The government of Nicaragua reported this Monday that it has initiated efforts to repatriate the 10-year-old Nicaraguan boy found in a desert in the United States, after being abandoned near the border with Mexico, and that he shocked society by the viral video in which he was He watches for help and drowned in tears.

The Nicaraguan Vice President, Rosario Murillo, affirmed, in an address, the formation of a “Inter-institutional commission, made up of the Ministry of the Family, National Police and the Ministry of the Interior, with the objective of carrying out the procedures for the repatriation of the child Wilton Eniel Gutiérrez Obregón, and providing support to their families”.

The minor was found last day 1, according to official information, in the desert of Rio Grande, Texas, near the border with Mexico.

Three days ago Murillo, wife of President Daniel Ortega, reported that the boy left Nicaragua on February 7 with his mother, Meyling Obregón Leyva, who made the decision to migrate “motivated by problems with her partner at home.”

“We are in communication with the US and Mexican police authorities, Interpol, to locate and repatriate also, if possible, the citizen Meyling”added the first lady.

The Nicaraguan Police confirmed the version of the boy’s uncles living in USA, who maintain that the boy and his mother traveled “through blind spots”, were kidnapped in Mexico, and they have only been able to pay the minor’s ransom, thanks to which he was found alive in La Grulla, Texas.

The government of Nicaragua said he has requested information about Obregón from Mexico, country that indicated not having knowledge of the case.

Relatives of the woman, of peasant origin, have made public their concern for her life.

Historically, Nicaraguan migrants have as their main destination Costa Rica and then the United States, however, they rarely leave without papers with their children, a phenomenon more typical of the so-called “Northern Triangle”, made up of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.

Since April 2018, more than 103,000 Nicaraguans of all ages have fled Nicaragua due to the social, political and human rights crisis that the country is experiencing, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which established the number of deaths due to the context at 328.

The conflict led to an economic crisis, accentuated by the pandemic of the COVID-19 and the impact of hurricanes Eta and Iota in November 2020, in what was already the third poorest country in Latin America, only surpassed by Haiti and Venezuela.