In the midst of chaos, dust and rumble that shuddered on the night of Tuesday, April 8, a history of love and heroism emerges between debris of the Jet Set. Maribel Espaillat, administrator of the emblematic nightclub, survived the collapse From the roof because her husband, Daniel Vera Pichardo, protected her with her body.
“Everything happened in seconds. We listened to a dry noise, a rumble … and in what I asked what was that?, I was already under the debris. I didn’t understand anything. All he felt was the weight of his body on mine … covering me“, he recounts in inconsolable tears.
Daniel, his life partner launched himself instinctively to save her. That act of love He has it today admitted to a health center, in state delicatewith multiple internal injuries and a fracture in the femur.
Has undergone a surgeryhe has received nine blood pints, and doctors They evaluate a possible second intervention. “His fever does not yield, he is very inflamed … he is in the hands of God and doctors“, says Maribel, with a broken voice.
She didn’t come out unharmed either. A wound deep in the head left 12 points of suture. Part of his ear was detached by the impact and was restored by surgeons. “But I’m alive … thanks to him,” he repeats, as if he still couldn’t believe it.
What hurts most now is not just the physical. It is the absence Of those who failed to leave alive. With a torn voice, he remembers his co -workers, many of whom died that night. “They were not employees. They were my family. They were the ones who took care of me … “.
Gregory, one of the members of the equipmentwith whom I had shared a conversation Just days before. “On Saturday I was sitting with him and said: Gregory, what equipment We have so good! These boys are a gift. I never thought it would be the last time we would talk. ”
Hope in pain
While Daniel continues in care intensive and its status is very delicate, Maribel keeps the hope that her husband will recover, but the pain It is deep, and the wound Emotional will take a long time to heal. His testimony Not only move: humanizes a tragedy that has left the whole country of mourning.
Among so many cold figures and official reports, your history Remember that each victimeach wounded, each survivorhas a name, a face and a history What to count.
