Frontera Comalapa.- Marvin Alberto Tomás Tomás never met his father, since when he was born, in 1999, he had already died in Comitancillo, A municipality located on the eastern side of the Tajumulco volcano in Guatemala; here, the boy learned from his mother, Doña Ángela, agriculture.
In his spare time, he enjoyed congregating with his friends to play football, a sport that made his country famous, as he was one of the best players in the third division in the last two years.
The left, as he was known in the Youth team Comiteca, Said goodbye to Dona Ángela on Thursday 14 January because, despite having a promising future in sport in her country, she wanted to look for a job in United States to help his mother and build a house.
He also had to pay the 80,000 quetzals (206,000 pesos) he borrowed from an agiotista in exchange for his land, where corn, beans, pumpkins, bananas, soursops, as well as other fruits were grown.
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He is one of the 19 people who were killed and burned in Camargo, Tamaulipas, last January 22nd. He was part of the group of 11 migrants natives of Comitancillo who sought to reach the American Union, Of whom his relatives have not heard again.
Comitancillo is a municipality of natives mam, of more than 80 thousand inhabitants. For the past four decades, thousands of its inhabitants have emigrated to the United States; they started when the civil war in Guatemala it was at its strongest.
Although migration has changed the face of the village – with cement houses, mosaics and striking colors, unlike the adobe houses that existed in the 80s of last century -, it has also grieved families, because of this municipality were some of the fatal victims of the traffic accident that occurred on March 7, 2019 on the Soyaló-Chicoasén section, about 60 kilometers from Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, which claimed the lives of 25 migrants and 29 others were seriously injured.
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Angela’s son’s dream
“Marvin was a good player with a lot of future, but due to poverty and limited financial resources he decided to leave the ball, his family and his people to cross Mexico and come to the United States in search of a better future. .
“He wanted a beautiful house for his mother,” explains Nelson Cardona, a Comitancillo neighbor.
reports that he will leave it he had been participating in the Joventut Comiteca team for two years and was becoming more and more prominent; however, he left the sport “because he wanted a better life.”
A week after Marvin left his country he phoned his mother to tell her he was already in Reynosa waiting to cross the border between Mexico and the United States, only he had to wait for it the coyote he had told them that the “crossing” would be on Wednesday, January 27th.
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Since then Dona Angela he did not know more, until a family from Comitancillo received a call on Saturday at 1:00 pm to warn that the 11 comitecos had been killed in Camargo, Tamaulipas.
while the Mexican authorities they talked about attacks between criminal groups, the relatives of the migrants they were already mourning their dead. Days later they traveled to Guatemala City to perform DNA testing and allow the identification of bodies.
It was not until Tuesday, February 2, that the Tamaulipas government finally announced that of the 19 cremated bodies found in two vans in Camargo, only four have been officially identified, one of them being Marvin A “T” … the son of Doña Ángela … the Guatemalan soccer player that all he was looking for was a better life in the United States.