The remains of the Nicaraguan migrant Santos Lucio Dolmus Castillo36 years old, arrived on Saturday, May 21, at Villa 15 de Julio, in Chinandega, the place where he left eight years ago in search of the “American dream.”
The national died in a hospital in Dallas, Texas, on April 5, where he was taken by a group of migrants with whom he was conversing near a lake in that state, but until now they have not explained what happened. The family spent days seeking help to raise $7,000 to repatriate his body and give him a Christian burial in his homeland.
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“His remains arrived at the Managua International Airport on Saturday and we transferred him to his home in Villa 15 de Julio. We appreciate the support of all the people who helped us to see him for the last time,” said Mrs. Luz María Mercado, the widow of Dolmus Castillo, between sobs.
The unfortunate man was buried yesterday Sunday in the Buenos Aires community, in Villa 15 de Julio, about 36 kilometers from the departmental capital of Chinandega. The neighbors mourned the tragedy of the Nicaraguan who left the country in 2016, looking for a job that would allow him to earn enough money to support his elderly mother and his life partner, whom he left pregnant when he left.
This year I would return
In this community of about 10,000 inhabitants, at least 60 percent of young people have migrated in search of a better life due to the lack of employment and opportunities. When Santos Castillo emigrated, he did so with the illusion of working from sunup to sundown for his own venture: a bakery, which he planned to open in November of this year that he planned to return to.
The migrant was also unable to hug his son. The news of his partner’s pregnancy reached him when he was on the border between Mexico and the United States, and he only had to continue the route to fulfill his dream. He met the minor through video calls. “He was always aware of my needs and those of the child,” he said very sadly consolation castillomother of the Nicaraguan.
Before her trip, the 76-year-old mother said that she depended on her son’s work, that he “searched” doing informal jobs, but that he guaranteed them, as she says, “rice and beans.” «Here my son did not have a job and he struggled to bring the pennies home, although he wanted to help him, he no longer had the strength to look for a job. He wanted to start his business and had already invested to build it in the patio of the house but tragedy took him away from me, he took his life and his dreams, “she lamented.
Castillo said that now he will have to survive without the help of his son, and start the bakery, which was already equipped with machinery and business items. “We have to get ahead, especially for the child, who is going to need it.”
Death is still unclear
What the Castillo family knows to this day is that Dolmus was hospitalized after having been socializing with some friends from the community who are also migrants, on the shores of a lake in Texas. For days he spent connected to a machine in the Intensive Care Unit, ICU, under confidential diagnosis.
«From the call they made me from the hospital, it was that I realized what was happening with my son. They, the doctors, said it was serious and they showed it to me by video call. They had him connected to all the devices, but he no longer spoke, it is the last image I remember of him, “said Doña Consuelo.
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What was known about the case of the Nicaraguan migrant is that he had fallen into the water and escaped drowning in the lake. On the way home he felt bad and that’s when he asked to be taken to the hospital. The doctors who treated him in the emergency room indicated that he was left abandoned in the room and the water that he had swallowed affected his lungs and other body organs. Due to his serious condition, he was unable to resist and died five days later.
Santos’ causes of death are still unclear. A relative of the migrant in the United States was in charge of carrying out the repatriation process for him and awaits the results of the autopsy and the investigations by the Texas County Police to find out the direct causes that caused his death.
