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Families scour southern Mexico after 40 migrants vanished on a dangerous sea route

On Christmas Eve 2024, Elianis Caridad Morejón Pérez, a young Cuban woman, told her mother she was boarding a boat from southern Mexico to the U.S. She disappeared along with 39 other migrants from Cuba, Honduras, and Ecuador

First seen · 7:04 PM UTCMay 14, 2026

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Families scour southern Mexico after 40 migrants vanished on a dangerous sea routeOn Christmas Eve 2024, Elianis Caridad Morejón Pérez, a young Cuban woman, told her mother she was boarding a boat from southern Mexico to the U.S. She disappeared along with 39 other migrants from Cuba, Honduras, and Ecuador
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