The body of the radio announcer Calixto Nelson Rojas Bordasdrowned on May 1 in the Rio Grande, while trying to cross into the United States, will be repatriated to Nicaragua, as reported to Article 66 their families.
It was 3,100 dollars that was needed to transfer Rojas’ body to Nicaragua, funds that according to Melania Rojas, sister of the deceased, could be obtained, “thanks to a kind heart that helped us for the repatriation of my brother.”
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His family hopes that between Sunday, May 8, or Monday, May 9, the coffin will arrive at the Augusto C. Sandino International Airport, in Managua, and then be transferred to the municipality of Telica, in the department of León.
He will be veiled at his home, to later perform funeral honors for them – on Tuesday 10 – in the Telica cemetery, a Leonese municipality where the 53-year-old announcer lived almost all his life.
As for the solidarity of the Nicaraguan people with the family of Calixto Rojas, Melania expressed her gratitude for the support. “Thank God everyone has been shocked by what happened to my brother and they have supported us,” she declared.
Mayor of León prevents talkative in support of Calixto Rojas
Regarding the talkative that the community of Leonese broadcasters would carry out this Friday, May 6, in the central park of León in order to raise funds and be able to contribute to the repatriation of the body of Rojas Bordas, the broadcaster’s family reported that the Mayor’s Office prevented for the activity to take place.
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“The talkative was going to happen but my brothers who were there — in León — people from the Mayor’s Office ran them out of the park and started taking pictures of them,” said Melania Rojas, who said that the only thing she wanted as a family was to thank the college town people for the support.
Four years of not seeing Calixto
Rojas’ family assured this media outlet that the announcer left Nicaragua on October 17, 2018, but they had communication by telephone.
In addition, Melania Rojas affirmed that on May 1 at 12 noon she managed to communicate with her brother, who told her that he would soon cross the Rio Grande. “Sister, don’t write to me anymore, my brother told me, because he would already cross the river, but it was at six in the afternoon that we were informed of the tragic news,” explained the relative.
Rojas traveled from Belize to Mexico on April 29 irregularly with the aim of crossing into the United States and thus provide a better life for his three children who live in Nicaragua. Three days later, on May 1, it was learned through social networks that the Nicaraguan migrant drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande.
The last minutes of his life were recorded by an American journalist. According to versions of witnesses who witnessed the moment he drowned, the Mexican authorities and rescuers who were in the area did nothing in the face of the Nicaraguan’s cries for help and desperation.
