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Guatemalans fear their relatives are among the burned victims found in Mexico

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Inhabitants of Comitancillo, in Guatemala, feared that at least a dozen of their relatives were among the 19 burned bodies found along a border road between Mexico and the United States, an authority of the area informed.

Luis Velásquez, Governor of San Marcos, where Comitancillo is located, said a group of inhabitants left the region hoping to reach the United States via Mexico. The last time they could contact their relatives was in Tamaulipas, where Mexican authorities found the bodies. “Family members claim that those who were murdered are their relatives,” he added.

In this regard, relatives of the alleged victims presented themselves to the Foreign Ministry on Monday to provide details of the travelers in order to help identify them. In addition, DNA tests were taken from them to determine whether the bodies found are those of the missing Guatemalans.

“Right now we are assisting some of those who came to the Ministry to request information on the procedure to be followed. We are collecting data to have it at hand when Mexican authorities require it,” a source from the Foreign Ministry told reporters.

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The bodies of the presumed migrants were found on a rural road in Camargo, near the border with Nuevo León, the Mexican Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.

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FBI Most Wanted Fugitive Arrested in Mexico and Deported to U.S.

Authorities in Mexico announced Thursday that Samuel Ramírez Jr., a U.S. citizen accused of murdering two women and listed among the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, was arrested in the northern state of Sinaloa.

Ramírez Jr., 33, was detained Tuesday in Culiacán just 1 hour and 13 minutes after being added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Ten Most Wanted list, the agency said in a statement.

The suspect, who was born in California, has already been deported to the U.S. state of Washington, where he faces charges related to the fatal shooting of two women at a bar in Federal Way in May 2023.

A court issued an arrest warrant for Ramírez in November last year, and the FBI initially offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to his capture, later increasing the amount to up to $1 million.

“To protect individuals’ privacy and ensure continued cooperation from the public, the FBI does not confirm the identity of those who provide information,” the agency said in its statement.

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UN experts warn Nicaragua runs vast transnational network to monitor exiled dissidents

Nicaragua maintains an “extensive” transnational network to monitor and intimidate opposition figures living in exile, affecting “hundreds of thousands” of people, the United Nations Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua warned on Tuesday.

In a statement, the experts said their report “details an extensive transnational architecture of surveillance and intelligence used to monitor, intimidate and attack the hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans living abroad.”

The report, which will be presented on March 16 to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, states that the structure maintained by the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo includes the army, the police, migration authorities and diplomatic missions.

According to the statement, “the government has arbitrarily stripped 452 Nicaraguans of their nationality, left thousands more exiled in a situation of de facto statelessness, and prevented many from returning to Nicaragua.”

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Trump: ‘We Think It’s True’ Amid Claims Iran’s Supreme Leader Was Killed

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he believes multiple reports claiming the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during the U.S. and Israeli offensive against the Islamic Republic are likely true, though he stopped short of confirming the news.

“We have a feeling that the information is correct,” he said, according to NBC News. “I don’t want to say anything definitive until I see it, but we think that’s the case. And many of their leaders have disappeared,” he added.

Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there were “many indications” that Khamenei had died in an attack on his residential compound.