Cancer, Denied Refugee Claim Sour Mexican Woman's Canadian Dream Updated News
go to original March 20, 2013

A Mexican couple’s dream of starting over in Canada is unraveling amid a misdiagnosed cancer, a lawsuit and rejected refugee claims from Ottawa.

Maria Morales and Ivan Nava came from Tierra Colorada in Guerrero state in southwestern Mexico, a region controlled by drug cartels and corrupt police.

Morales’ former partner, an architect and father to her now grown son, was murdered for reasons that were never clear to her, she says.

“They had tied him to a chair,” she said. “They beat him, I never wanted to know more, it hurt me too much.”

A recent Amnesty International report said there are up to 15,000 gang-related murders in Mexico per year. Morales met Ivan a year later, and as thugs continued to harass and threaten them, the couple say they realized it was time to get out.

So in 2009 they fled to Canada for safety and a fresh start.

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