Tecún Umán, Guatemala. Among thousands of immigrants who left San Pedro Sula, Honduras, travels Valery, a blind girl whose parents cling to the hope of achieving U.S to heal his eyes that have seen nothing of this world since he was born.
Days ago, the family leaked into the column of the Civil National Police from Guatemala deployed to contain the caravan of thousands Honduran migrants that wanted to cross to go to the United States. Wednesday, after suffering a week of hunger and cold, he managed to reach the banks of the Suchiate River, on the Guatemalan side of the Mexican border.
Denis Fernández, father of the three-year-old girl, asks only the Mexican government Let them pass to go to the United States, because there they will certainly have a greater chance that their daughter will have and ever see surgery.
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Rosa Herlinda Reyes, with Denia, an 18-month-old baby, Angeli and Valery, says that a few months ago her home and the banana plantation where her husband worked were devastated by tropical storms Eta and Iota.
His wife Rosa Herlinda Reyes, with Denia, an 18-month-old baby in her arms and Angeli Michelle, 10, by her side, says that a few months ago her home and the banana plantation where her husband worked were destroyed by the tropical storms Eta and Jota. They have lost everything, but Rosa is not willing to lose hope that Valery will ever see.
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Before leaving the Suchiate River, Angeli leads her sister to the water.
“Joy does not return to our faces until my daughter can see this world,” Rosa says, staring at him. río Suchiate, where they cross rafts with immigrants determined not to stop to rest.
“Only that day will we be happy,” agrees Denis.
Denis, the girls’ father, only asks the Mexican government to let them go to the US.
He says they left on January 13 Lime, municipality of the department of Cortés, in Honduras, to join the caravan of Central American immigrants, who have various reasons for leaving their country, although the constant widespread poverty is. The Guatemalan authorities forcibly disbanded the caravan.
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The Fernández family hoped the caravan would be able to cross over to rejoin the migrants, confident that this would make it easier to enter Mexico. But even though that won’t happen again, they are determined to move on. His plan: cross the Suchiate, either by raft or on foot along the river in the lower part.
The family tries to cross the Suchiate, either by raft or by walking along the lower part of the river.
Before using it SuchiateAngeli takes her sister Valery to touch the water, feel the texture of the sand and listen to the rustle of the trees. She has been his feet and his eyes since he started taking his first steps. They laugh for a moment.
“Let’s go now!” Denis says as he approaches Valery and climbs into her neck. Everyone collects their belongings and continues their journey.