The Texas Nicaraguan Community (TNC) reported that the relatives of the Nicaraguan from Boaco, Lester Sotero Castillo Jarquín, managed to identify his body through a DNA test and have already started the repatriation process. The 28-year-old man drowned when trying to cross the dangerous waters of the Rio Grande.
The test was provided by his brother to make the comparison in the Webb County Medical Examiner laboratory, the result corresponded to Lester Sotero, who died on May 26, 2022. His remains remain in the morgue of the city of Laredo, Texas pending of his repatriation to Nicaragua.
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The same day that Castillo Jarquín died, Kelvin Antonio Torrez Medina, José Antonio García Ramírez, Melvin Alexander Zelaya Hurtado and Carelia del Carmen Velásquez also drowned, who according to sources were in the same group.
TNC denounces that «there are still two more bodies to carry out DNA tests, Francisco Téllez and Kelvin Torrez have been stranded without consular assistance, since Consul Samuel Trejos does not answer calls or messages to the family, since, The taking of the samples has to be in Nicaragua, and there is no indication from the consulate for these cases, ”explains the organization.
They affirm that their relatives “have presented themselves to the Interior, Legal Medicine and nobody gives them an answer on how to proceed. According to indications from the morgue, the DNA kits that are swabs were sent to Consul Trejos since August when he was sent an e-mail of these requirements, “refers TNC.
They state that in order to be valid, the test must be done by their relatives through a government agency “to guarantee and custody the DNA sample, while it is sent back to the Morgue in Laredo, Texas. How much longer are these two families going to wait?” Nicaraguans in Texas ask.
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Castillo Jarquín’s goal was to reach North American lands to work and give his family a better life and to be able to build his house. The Boaqueño left three children, ages two and six. On his trip, the young man had been the victim of extortion by alleged Mexican cartels who informed his relatives that they had Castillo kidnapped.
His wife Joselyn Sánchez affirmed that she had published the disappearance of her spouse “because we hoped that he would have been saved because he knew how to swim, then several cartels in Mexico began to call me, I fell into one of them and he told me that they wanted two thousand dollars for free him, I deposited the only thing I had for my children, but it turned out to be false.
“I confirmed that he was dead – Lester Castillo – because I went to ask the Ministry of the Interior in Boaco and they told me it was true, I also heard about the news from the Texas Nicaraguan Community,” added the wife of the deceased.
