Global Courant 2023-04-13 12:10:01
Protection, Santa Barbara
There were minutes to 5:00 in the morning yesterday when dozens of motorcycles and vehicles were stationed on one side of the CA-4 highwayat the entrance of the Chalmeca communitywhich belongs to Nueva Arcadia, Copan.
That small town, which must be crossed to reach the municipality of Protección, was the meeting point for the large caravan made up of some 500 people who got together and organized to escort them to the new future villagethe remains of Edin Josué Umana (26 years old), Jesus Adony Alvarado Madrid (of 32) and Dikson Aron Cordova (out of 30).
Everyone -neighbors, friends and relatives- were there united by pain and love. Although they had waited without sleeping all morning, they waited a long time with banners and messages of reflection, for the arrival of the funeral procession that left Comayagua at midnight.
The people from Santa Barbara are three of the six Hondurans who died in the incident that occurred on Monday, March 27, at an immigration station in Ciudad Juárez, and who arrived Tuesday night on an official flight that landed at the Enrique Soto Cano airbase from Mexico.
Sepal
> Survivors will seek to rebuild their lives in Mexico. LA PRENSA learned that the Honduran Cristhian Javier Carranza Toro, one of the survivors who remains hospitalized, is gradually recovering satisfactorily. The Mexican government has already granted him a residence permit for one year and has been in charge of providing him with all the necessary care for his recovery. > Mourning seizes the family of Juan Carlos Tróchez. The municipality of Protection received the bodies of three of his children amid the consternation over the murder of a town merchant. This is Saturnino Tróchez, uncle of Juan Carlos Tróchez, one of the eight survivors in the fire in Mexico. Don Saturnino was assassinated on Tuesday on the highway between Protección and Chalmeca, presumably to rob him, since he was a merchant. He was veiled and many were grateful that his niece survived, otherwise it would have been a double loss.
With them also arrived in the country the mortal remains of José Ángel Ceballos Molina (21), originally from Choluteca; Óscar Danilo Serrano Ramírez (37), from La Virtud, Lempira; and Alis Dagoberto Santos López (42) from Olancho, who were expected to also be veiled in their hometowns.
After a long journey of more than 260 kilometers and a five-hour journey, the three hearses of the featherfoot dreamers arrived at the turnoff at Chalmeca.
From there, to reach what were their homes, they still had to travel another hour and at least 20 kilometers along a dirt road full of slopes, and in complete darkness.
After this journey that became longer than usual due to the rigorous protocol of the hearsees, the three friends were finally at home, just as the sun was rising in the rising sun.
The wooden coffins, wrapped in cardboard to protect them, occupied the main halls of the homes of the Umaña, Córdova and Alvarado families, after 16 long days of anguish and uncertainty, first due to the lack of confirmation of the deaths, and then, for the wait for the remains to be repatriated from Mexico.
With the entrance of the three boys through the portal that they left 24 days ago, the hearts of three mothers and fathers broke into pieces after seeing those boys who, on Father’s Day night, left behind those they loved the most, all lifeless. for fulfilling the dream of achieving a better future in the United States, a country from which they were only one step away.
Together till the end
With the news of the arrival of the three bodies, spreading throughout all the villages and hamlets, residents from all corners came to show their condolences to the families and see the boys for the last time.
They remembered the three of them as men dedicated to farm tasks, kind, cheerful and helpful.
That was a bustle of coming and going. Some women served coffee, others food and refreshments, while still others cooked and sent the served dishes to the three houses.
After a busy day that allowed each of the boys to hold vigil in their homes, and then all three together in the town’s main square, today the three will be buried in the course of the morning.
The three graves where his remains will rest are ready and were built together in the La Laguna cemetery, where they will be oriented with a view towards what was his community.
Besides
> Sindi Umaña, Edin Josué’s sister, who traveled to Mexico for him, advised her neighbors not to emigrate, as many dangers lurk.
And meanwhile, the pain doesn’t end in new futurein the community there is concern because another group of young people is organizing to undertake the trip to USA. Together they must collect more than L400,000 to pay a coyote to take them on an uncertain journey where it is not known if they will live or die.
Some believe that living or dying is a matter of luck, one that they are willing to avoid, since with their current reality, they do nothing more than daily living.
