2026-06-12 00:48:53 UTC / 路透社
记者：史蒂夫·戈尔曼
2026年6月12日 美国东部时间凌晨00:48 更新于3小时前
2021年12月9日，墨西哥恰帕斯州图斯特拉-古铁雷斯市一处拖车事故现场，一名警察抬手阻挡摄影师拍摄。该事故造成至少49人死亡，其中大多为中美洲移民。路透社/雅各布·加西亚 购买授权，将在新标签页打开
摘要
- 两名被告均面临最高终身监禁的刑罚
- 拖车头拖车车厢内挤满160余名移民
- 该起车祸是十年来最致命的移民事件之一
6月11日（路透社）——两名危地马拉国民周四在得克萨斯州联邦法院认罪，他们被控与2021年12月墨西哥一起拖车头拖车翻车案相关的人口走私罪名，该事故造成车厢内160余名移民中的55人死亡。
美国司法部表示，已被引渡至美国的43岁何塞法·基尼奥·卡尼尔·德·萨瓦拉和32岁的阿尔贝托·马尔卡里奥·奇蒂克在认罪供认中承认，他们合谋将成人和无人陪伴儿童从危地马拉经墨西哥走私至美国。
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在其中一次走私行动中，约166名移民被塞进一辆拖车头拖车，车辆在墨西哥恰帕斯州图斯特拉-古铁雷斯市附近翻车并撞向桥基。
2021年12月9日的事故造成55名移民死亡，其中包括一名16岁女孩，另有数十人受伤。事故现场的后续视频显示，尸体散落在撞车地点。[点击此处查看详情，将在新标签页打开]
墨西哥当局当时表示，几乎所有遇难者都是危地马拉人。恰帕斯州官员表示，伤者中包括三名多米尼加人、一名洪都拉斯人、一名墨西哥人和一名厄瓜多尔人。
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幸存者称，他们被紧紧塞进拖车车厢，大多数人只能站立。当时，这起车祸是十年来墨西哥最致命的移民走私事故之一。
根据司法部的声明，卡尼尔·德·萨瓦拉和奇蒂克均承认合谋将非法移民运往美国，并造成严重人身伤害导致死亡。
司法部表示，两人将于9月9日在得克萨斯州联邦法院接受宣判，届时均面临最高终身监禁的刑罚。
“这两名被告运营着一处精心策划的外籍人员走私网络，如同供应链一般跨境转运人口——在危地马拉招募人员、收取费用，将他们塞进牲畜卡车和拖车头拖车，踏上穿越墨西哥的危险旅程，”美国得克萨斯州南区代理检察官约翰·马克说道。
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Two Guatemalans plead guilty in US migrant smuggling case after crash kills 55
2026-06-12 00:48:53 UTC / Reuters
By Steve Gorman
June 12, 2026 12:48 AM UTC Updated 3 hours ago
A police officer raises his arm to block photographers to to avoid taking pictures at the site of a trailer accident that left at least 49 people dead, most of them migrants from Central America, in Tuxtla Gutierrez, in Chiapas state, Mexico December 9, 2021. REUTERS/Jacob Garcia Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
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Defendants each face maximum penalty of life in prison
Tractor-trailer was packed with more than 160 migrants
Crash was one of deadliest migrant incidents in a decade
June 11 (Reuters) – Two Guatemalan nationals pleaded guilty in a Texas federal court on Thursday to human smuggling charges stemming from the December 2021 crash of a tractor-trailer in Mexico that killed 55 of the 160-plus migrants packed inside.
Josefa Quino Canil De Zavala, 43, and Alberto Marcario Chitic, 32, who were extradited to the U.S., admitted as part of their plea that they conspired to smuggle adults and unaccompanied children from Guatemala through Mexico into the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said.
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In one such operation, an estimated 166 migrants were crammed into a tractor-trailer truck that overturned and slammed into a bridge abutment near the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez in Chiapas, Mexico.
Fifty-five of the migrants died in the December 9, 2021, accident, opens new tab, including a 16-year-old girl, and dozens of others were injured. Video footage of the aftermath showed bodies scattered across the crash site.
Mexican authorities at the time said nearly all of the victims were Guatemalan. Chiapas officials said three people from the Dominican Republic, a Honduran, a Mexican and an Ecuadorean were among the injured.
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Survivors said they had been squeezed into the trailer compartment so tightly that most people could only stand. At the time, the crash ranked among the deadliest migrant-smuggling accidents in Mexico in a decade.
Canil De Zavala and Chitic each pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport an illegal alien to the U.S., causing serious bodily injury resulting in death, according to the Justice Department statement.
Both face a maximum penalty of life in prison when they are sentenced on September 9 in a federal court in Texas, the department said.
“The defendants ran a calculated alien smuggling operation that moved people across borders like a supply chain – recruiting them in Guatemala, collecting their money and packing them into cattle trucks and tractor-trailers for a dangerous journey through Mexico,” said John Marck, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas.
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Marck said that unaccompanied minors smuggled by the network were even given scripted language to recite to law enforcement should they be caught entering the U.S.
The two defendants and three other Guatemalans accused of taking part in the operation – Daniel Zavala Ramos, 41, Tomas Quino Canil, 37, and Oswaldo Manuel Zavala Quino, 25 – were extradited from Guatemala to the U.S. in 2025 to face charges.
U.S. authorities arrested an additional Guatemalan national, Jorge Agapito Ventura, 33, in Texas in December 2024. Ramos entered a guilty plea in April. Cases against the three others are pending.
Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los An geles; Editing by Cynthia Osterman
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