14ymedio, Havana, February 7, 2024 — Friends of the Cubans Marleny Hernández Alfonso and Ihanosky López Pérez, animal rescuers, and computer engineer Arletis Velázquez Ramírez, three of the nine migrants who died in a traffic crash in Guatemala, ask for help to repatriate their bodies to the Island.
Their initiative is due to the delay of the Cuban Embassy in Guatemala, which, according to Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, began the return procedure on February 4. “Officials are providing consular assistance to the families for the repatriation of the victims’ bodies,” he said on his X account.
However, Canadian animal rescuer Joanne Howard commented on Facebook that several relatives of Hernández, 46, and López, 38, “now face the expense of repatriating their bodies to Cuba and taking care of the four dogs and cats they left behind.” For this they need $10,000, which they are collecting through the GoFundMe platform. Up to this Tuesday, they have collected just over $4,000.
Howard said that Hernández worked for 16 years at the Tryp hotel, in the Cayería Norte de Ciego de Ávila, “where she was known and loved f