In total, authorities said, the crash left 23 dead and 33 injured — all from Guatemala. Mexican authorities said they are investigating the smuggling ring, including the driver, who escaped.
The caskets of Delfino Cash Lopez, 19, and Felix Cash Lopez, 17, are carried from their home in Aldea Nica, Guatemala. The cousins and other migrants died in a March 7 truck accident in Chiapas, Mexico.
Romero, a 20-year-old unemployed mechanic, didn’t hesitate at the chance to join his father, who agreed to pay the smuggler $6,500 for the trip to Michigan.Hernandez, 24, the eldest of four siblings, felt an urgent need to help his family and planned to settle in Atlanta. Friends already there agreed to lend him money to pay the smuggler.
The men stood, and the women sat on the floor. Hernandez used his belt to fashion a strap hanger as the truck barreled along.were stunned by how crowded, and hot, it was inside the truck, where there was no natural light and little air once the doors were shut.“We were all on top of each other. We couldn’t see where they were taking us.”
Rescuers used ropes to drag the injured up the steep incline leading from the Bombana River. They placed Hernandez in an ambulance with a badly injured woman.She was dead before they reached the hospital. Three days after the crash, the first group of bodies arrived — five coffins jammed in a hearse. Romero and Hernandez rode in the front seat.Relatives held private mourning services, displaying flower-bedecked coffins in simple backyards illuminated by candles. Some townsfolk spoke of the difficulty of persuading young people to not venture north.
He died with a 19-year-old cousin. The pair had hoped to join relatives in Atlanta, where Cash Lopez was excited about meeting his brother’s 4-month-old baby, Lesli, part of a new generation of Americans with roots in Nica.
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