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Three members of Olivares’ circle of relatives left their home in Veracruz, Mexico, in search of a better life in the United States. Instead of locating the task they hoped would lead them to a better future, they were among 53 migrants found dead in a semi-trailer desert in the sweltering heat on a side road outside the gates of San Antonio, Texas.
It is now a roadside monument, marking the position where, on June 27, dozens of other people died in the highest number of deaths of any alleged human trafficking attempt in U. S. history. USA
Thousands of miles away, the families of the sick are just beginning to say their last goodbyes.
The circle of relatives of brothers Jair Olivares, 19, and Giovanni Olivares, 16, and their cousin Misael Olivares, 16, had to raise cash in Mexico to pay for funeral expenses as they mourned their loss.
“They sought to build a space and set up a business. There is work here, but he is very poorly paid. . . that’s why they went to a bigger life,” said Valencia, the mother of Jair and Giovanni Olivares. Reuters.
The family circle said they agreed to pay $10,000 to a teen trafficker.
The father of Jair and Giovanni Olivares said in the last text message he got from his 19-year-old son that the teenagers were in the caravan and hoped the smuggler would return to pick them up soon.
In the small town of Tzucubal, Guatemala, Maria and Casimiro Guachiac waited weeks for their son’s frame to be returned from the United States.
His son, Pascual Melvin, only thirteen years old.
Maria Guachiac said that before her son left, she said he was traveling to the United States to study, locate a homework and build a house.
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Pascual Melvin is not alone. He was traveling with Wilmer Tulul, his cousin, also thirteen years old and dead in the caravan.
The two children grew up in the city of Tzucubal, an indigenous Mayan network in the Sololá region, about a hundred miles from Guatemala City, where more than 70 percent of the population lives in poverty, according to Guatemala’s latest census. .
The two children went to the United States to look for paintings for their families.
The last time Casimiro Guachiac spoke with his son was 3 hours after the children arrived in San Antonio. Relatives in the United States helped organize the children and said they agreed to pay the smugglers $6,000 for each child before they reached San Antonio.
Guachiac said his son told him they were in a caravan, but the last time he had heard of him.
Funerals are also being organized in Honduras for those lost in the caravan tragedy. The brothers Fernando José Redondo Caballero and Alejandro Migue Andino Caballero and Margie Tamara Paz, a friend of one of the brothers, died in San Antonio.
Many families of victims and survivors are afraid to speak out. They say they are concerned about reprisals from the illegal organizations that orchestrated the trip. Many families say they still owe cash to smugglers, despite the adventure that ended in tragedy.
Guatemalan Foreign Minister Mario Adolfo Bucaro Flores said human trafficking is “sophisticated” and “transnational. “
“We have formed an organization underway with the United States, Mexico and Honduras, with district attorneys and intelligence agents to dismantle the organized crime industries,” Búcaro told ABC News Live Prime.
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According to Búcaro, smugglers charge up to $15,000 to counsel migrants across the border.
“We know the numbers are going up, but it doesn’t just count on the government’s side,” Bucaro said.
Four arrests have been made for the deaths of migrants and two of the alleged smugglers, Homero Zamorano, Jr. and Christian Martinez, face charges that can result in life in prison or the death penalty. Both remain in federal custody and have yet pleaded guilty. .
Families in Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico are praying for peace and justice while resting.
“I hope that in the United States we will have justice,” Guachiac said.
Relatives obtain the remains of their loved ones who died in the migrant tragedy that first made an impression on abcnews. go. com