14ymedio, Mexico City, 5 March 2024 — Yaileisy Asin Estévez died last Friday of a diabetic coma while waiting for a response to the CBP One appointment to fulfill the American dream. The information was spread by the influencer Niover Licea, who also mentioned the farewell letter that Faustino Betancourt Asin, the migrant’s brother, published on Facebook.
Asin Estévez, according to comments on her brother’s publication, had planned to arrive in Yuma County, Arizona. No details are provided of where she was in Mexico or whether her body will be repatriated.
The case of Asin Estévez joins that of several Cubans who have died during their time in Mexico. Yoan Marlon Díaz Escalona, 23, entered the country last September. This Havana native was also waiting for the CBP One appointment. The young man began to feel bad, he was admitted to a hospital, but his health worsened and he remained in a coma due to a brain infection.
The presenter Indira Solís confirmed on February 25 the death of Díaz Escalona, in addition to the family’s request for help to repatriate the body. His wife and his young son remained on the island.
Last December, the Cuban Yarioski Meriño also died in Mexico due to a heart attack. This man from Guantanamo, who had been hired to work in a store, had arrived in the country a month earlier. The relatives paid $5,000 to transport the body that arrived on the island on the first day of February.
Luis Enrique Méndez died last November at the Siglo XXI immigration station, located in Tapachula, where he had gone days earlier to ask for help because he w
