Infante’s husband, Eduard Caraballo, was transferred by ambulance from a hospital in Ciudad Juarez, where the fire happened, to a health center in El Paso, Texas, where he is receiving oxygen for damage to his lungs.
A fire on Monday night broke out at a detention center run by Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM), killing 39 migrants from Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Venezuela and pushing Mexican authorities to promise tough consequences for those responsible.
“The storm has passed,” Infante, 31, said while holding back tears as she walked to the vehicle which would take her to a migrant center in El Paso. She carried her infant daughter in her arms and was flanked by her two sons aged 12 and 13 years old.
Like millions of others, the family decided to flee Venezuela’s economic and political crisis, setting off for the United States last October on a journey that took them through the infamous Darien Gap, a tangled jungle…
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