• Submitted by: manso
• International
• 09 / 08 / 2010

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The testimony of a third survivor of the slaughter of Tamaulipas will help to investigate the crime committed against 72 Mexican migrants in that Mexican state, said the president of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes.

According to Funes, a Salvadoran, who is now in the USA, an Ecuadorian and a Honduran managed to escape unscathed from the massacre.

His testimony could be crucial to investigate the crime, but above all to establish the identity of who committed it and those who served as the link here in El Salvador, said Funes, who travelled to the USA on Monday to discuss the issue of migrants.

The bodies of 72 illegal immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador and Brazil were found on August 21 on a farm in the state of Tamaulipas, bordering Texas.

In the massacre were killed 13 Salvadorans, including eight men, three women and two children.

"We strongly condemn these multiple murders because never before in the history of migration in our country and Latin America had there been a slaughter of this magnitude" Funes said on Sunday while receiving the bodies of 11 migrants.

Funes travelled to Los Angeles, home to one of the largest Salvadoran communities in the United States, to meet representatives of that community and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

In his two-day visit, Funes urged his countrymen to re-enroll in the Temporary Protected Status, a benefit granted to their country following the earthquakes of January and February 2001, which has been extended several times.

PL Translation Staff