Atima, Santa Bàrbara.
After the death of two Honduran brothers in one traffic accident in Dallas, Texas, Yesterday, the family of Jimmy Joshua and Heyner Fernando Rivera has given statements this Friday from the town of Santabarbarense notoriously distressed and heartbroken after the sensitive news.
Jimmy and Fernando resided ten and three years ago respectively in USA, When they went out in search of an improvement in the quality of life of themselves and their parents. They were working in various fields in the state of Texas, the site of the accident.
“They were the ones who shook our hand. They were quality children. They always supported us,” he begins, anxiously. José Reynaldo Rivera, Father of the dead in the American country. “Losing children is sad. They are the greatest treasure. And that’s all there is to it,” he told HCH Rivera, in the small town in western Honduras, where he lives with his wife and mother of the Honduran brothers.
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On Thursday afternoon, it transpired that Hondurans had died in the massive traffic accident in Forth Worth, Texas, which involved more than 100 vehicles from the slippery highway.
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However, the vice president of the Consulate of Honduras in Dallas, Jackeline Murillo, clarified that they died in another car accident. Honduran authorities and relatives were informed by local police. In the incident, a cousin of the now killed was also seriously injured and remains in a delicate condition in a care center.
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“I’m diabetic,” says the father, “and my son Heyner was always on the lookout for my health. He was asking me, ‘Do you have any medicine?’
He also mentions that his children sent him money every week for the maintenance of the couple, already of the third age, and that they had bought land in the municipality, remodeled the house and bought cattle. In addition, they were responsible for paying the debts that afflicted the family in Honduras.
“I what I want is to help you., Father,” explains José Rivera that his son told him repeatedly, and that he promised him money to adapt the land so that he could rest and live from the production of livestock. “We’re going to fix the pastures so you can rest. It won’t work.”
The mother of the dead siblings, notoriously affected, declared, “As a mother, I tell them not to let go of their children. It is sad, that my children will not return.” Tears and grief keep them in anguish. “We ask the authorities to help us repatriate the bodies. We want to see them. We want to have them here,” he finally cried. José Rivera.