“Mexico beautiful and dear, if I die far from you, let them say that I am asleep, and let them bring me here,” says the chorus of the iconic song by Jorge Negretea phrase that mexican migrants and their families are very aware, because the American dream can end abruptly.
In the last four years, with 10,766 cases, USA has been the country with the highest number of deceased Mexican people whose relatives requested the transfer of the remains to national territory, according to data from the Secretary of Foreign Affairss (SRE).
To Emiliano Villavicencioacademic of the La Salle Universitythe death of a family member abroad has a symbolic charge, and the grieving process becomes complicated since the deceased is not buried immediately, which is why the agony of farewell is prolonged.
In an interview with this medium, the psychology expert explained that “the relatives of a person died abroad they repress all the pain generated by the loss, due to the legal and administrative process that the repatriation of a body entails”, hence the family member of the deceased has a double process for the loss, which will be deferred.
Meanwhile, the academic of the La Salle University, Emiliano Villavicencio, He highlighted that the repatriation of a body to its homeland is due to a feeling of patriotism, while reflecting the customs and customs of a place: “there is a feeling of strengthening ties with those close to one’s own, even after death.” , the body of the deceased continues with a social life, this until the body is repatriated and then it ends,” he concluded.
Through a request for information made by 24 HOURS to the agency to know the numbers and origin of the bodies repatriated in the last four years, the Mexican Foreign Ministry specified that in 2020, the hardest year of the coronavirus pandemic Covid 19, they returned to Mexico the remains of 92 women and 805 men from Puebla origin.
That same year they repatriated the bodies of 24 women and 506 men born in Guerrero, as well as the bodies of 197 women and 499 men of Michoacan origin, and the remains of 27 women and 450 men from Oaxaca.
While in 2021, with the Foreign Ministry headed by Marcelo Ebrard, the next Secretary of Economy, the remains of 193 women and 520 men who died in Mexico were repatriated to Mexico. United States to Michoacán, 169 bodies of women and 406 men who returned to the state of Jalisco, and the bodies of 67 women and 392 men born in Oaxaca returned to their place of origin.
In 2022, the SRE repatriated from the neighboring country to Mexico the bodies of 130 women and 345 men of Michoacan origin, as well as 84 women and 327 men born in Guerrero, as well as the remains of 72 Puebla women and 314 Puebla men; and 86 bodies of women and 301 of men from Guanajuato.
In 2023, the mexican chancellery recorded the repatriation of the bodies of 19 women and 423 men born in Michoacán, the remains of 11 women and 368 men from Jalisco, the bodies of eight women and 357 men from Oaxaca, and the bodies of 10 women and 345 men from Guerrero .
By June 2024the Ministry of Foreign Affairs The remains of 77 women and 161 men from Michoacán have returned to Mexico, as well as the bodies of 35 women and 142 men born in Guanajuato, the bodies of 26 women and 129 men from Puebla, and the bodies of 46 women and 122 men from Guerrero.
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2024-09-29 04:08:24