The released politician Elsa Valle, daughter of the political prisoner for the second time Carlos Valle, detailed 100% News the “ordeal” that he had to live with his family to reach the United States, a country in which he will request political asylum.
“It was too difficult and complicated, the truth is that only God knows everything we went through to be here (in the United States) today,” said the young opposition member.
“We went through so many things like going by vans, by boats for 10 hours under the sun, my child was almost kidnapped. Even when we turned in, they stole our money, the same taxis (taxi drivers), but well, they left us the same at the point where we had to turn ourselves in, “he added.
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Likewise, he recounted that during his stay in Mexican territory his mother fractured her foot, exactly in the fibula, and she had to continue the trip in a wheelchair. “She needs an operation, in Mexico they were going to do it, but we only had permission to be in the country for seven days and then we decided to move forward, we couldn’t stay any longer,” she said.
Elsa Valle traveled irregularly through Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico with her little son Leandro, his mother, his sister and two friends. On November 5, they undertook this trip and that same day the dictatorship recaptured her father.
The crossing to the US
The opponent pointed out that when crossing through Ciudad Juárez, one of the most dangerous areas in Mexico, she passed several checkpoints and “thank God, they did not stop us. We arrived without any problem” at the border with the United States.
In the early hours of Monday, November 21, the released politician along with her family and friends turned themselves in to the US immigration authorities, who only spent a few hours in the detention center and were released the following day.
“The same Venezuelans who were there helped us move my mother, because we had to cross like a river, we crossed around two in the morning and that river was almost pouring ice, so we had to cross.” , detailed the opponent.
Currently, Elsa Valle is in a shelter in El Paso Texas with her son, her sister and one of the friends who accompanied her. Her mother and the other boy who undertook the trip with her were transferred to a hospital due to problems with her health and so far she has no information about them.
“At the time that our data was taken from my mother, they took her away, they separated us from her, they took her in an ambulance, they told me that when I got out they were going to give me information, they didn’t give me information, now I don’t know anything I don’t know anything about her, I don’t know anything about one of the boys who went with me, we only know that they took him with a high temperature and well, my mother the same, it is not known in which hospital she is and they left us scattered everywhere, “he said.
«The next step is to find out how to find out about my mother, Lesther, one of the boys who came with me, because Rebeca goes to a brother of mine and she already has her ticket, the other boy the same. What happens is that right now I cannot move without my mother, I need to solve that, I cannot move forward without her, “said the released politician, who is anguished at not having information about her mother.
“I already have enough suffering that my father is locked up there and now so that I do not have information about my mother, I am here in a place where I do not know anyone and nobody gives me information about her, the truth is that right now I do not know what to do and I only ask God for direction, “he added.
Likewise, he sent a message to his father Carlos Valle, who was recaptured by the Ortega Police. “I tell my dad to feel calm because we are fine here, we are safer and waiting on God if he can negotiate his departure from the country, that he leave and come meet us and that his grandson is fine, I tell him I talk about him every day, so he doesn’t forget my dad and hoping in God he can spend Christmas here quietly with us,” Valle said.
