Atima, Santa Bàrbara.
“I’m going to be a better father this year, you’ll see. I’ll make them their house and buy the cows.” That was part of the last conversation he had José Reynaldo Rivera with Heyler Ferran, one of his two children who died in an accident on their way back from Houston to Dallas in States in the United States.
It was around 8:00 pm on February 10 that his youngest son, at the end of work, called him and told him that they had already bathed and that he was taking out gasoline, the remains of materials of construction he had in his hands.
Tonight Fernando spoke very excitedly to his father, as after having had a bad year financially due to the pandemic, they were starting to see that they already had many opportunities in construction work.
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“He always worried about my medications because I’m diabetic and he told me he was going to make us the hut and buy cows to walk the work here in Honduras,” the father recounted.
Heyler Fernando Rivera Sants (22 years old) and his brother Jimy Josué (27) were originally from Atima, Santa Bàrbara, where they left a few years ago in the hope of being able to work to buy land and livestock in their village. But on February 10 after leaving work, they were boarding a pick-up vehicle when they had an accident with a truck, which according to relatives, caused the accident.
Heyler Fernando and his brother Jimy Joshua they went with their cousin Mixzaín Rivera, who was driving the car and was seriously injured. The three young men had had a long day’s work in Houston and had to return to the city of Dallas, for they lived here. They told their relatives that they had other work to do and had to be up early the next day.
tragic day
Relatives in Honduras became aware of the tragedy on Thursday 11, the day it occurred another road accident in Dallas, Texass, among about 100 vehicles left six dead.
Honduran consulate authorities in Houston contacted the brothers’ family who asked for help in repatriating the corpses.
“We ask the authorities and people of good heart to help us to bring our boys to this land,” María Isabel Santos, the mother of the young people, asked through tears.
He indicated that his children had dreams and a desire to work to help them.
“They told me, old woman, we want you to be well.”
Jimy Joshua left Honduras five years ago with a work visa and Heyler Fernando chose to go to the desert where he was lost for 14 days and surrendered to Migration.
In a second attempt he achieved his goal. This was two years ago, when he managed to provide for his household expenses and medicines to his parents, from whom he could also buy some cows.
His younger brother in Atima also hoped that Jimy and Heyler would help him lift the crops on the small plot they have. He even explained that he had promised to buy him a motorcycle for that he would help his parents with the errands.
In the middle of the property is the wooden house that his children had promised José Reynaldo and Maria Isabel to build them with material and furnish it. “I know they were going to come back because they wanted this land, they just wanted a chance,” others of the brothers said.
Yesterday the family sent photographs of their home as well as legal documents requested by the Chancellery to carry out the repatriation procedures and to be able to say goodbye to their land.