After seven days interned in the Darien jungle, the family of the Cuban boy Brayan Rommel Corrales Bravo died of a heart attack on the way, reached Panama this Thursday. There, reported the journalist from America TeVé Mario J. Pentón, will be welcomed by the Catholic priest Víctor Manuel Berrío.
On a video Uploaded to his social networks, the communicator said that, according to María Caridad Cemino, a relative residing in the United States, the migrants are “psychologically” and “physically” affected. The journey has become hell for the father of the family, his five-year-old little girl, the grandparents and an uncle. Overcoming the losses of two of its members will not be easy.
Brayan was buried in that portion of jungle that stretches on the border between Panama and Colombia. “There was no way to lower him and give him a decent burial,” he told 14ymedio the mayor of the Colombian municipality of Acandí, in the department of Chocó, Alexander Murillo. “The family followed the route. They are all very bad, first it was the mother, then the son, we would like to do more but we are limited.”
In October, Lisandra Bravo Alarcón, Brayan’s mother, died in the shipwreck that carried 30 irregular migrants. Without vests they ventured in a clandestine launch. People, he pointed Johan Álvarez to Univisión, “prefers to die in the jungle or have the shark eat them in the sea, than to be in Cuba”, with the death of Lisandra and Brayan, “the father must be dead while he is alive.”
The journey has become hell for the father of the family, his five-year-old little girl, the grandparents and an uncle. Overcoming the losses of two of its members will not be easy
In Panama, the Cuban family will be welcomed by Deacon Berrío, who will “rent a place” for them and provide them with food and the care they need to the best of their ability.
The religious has carried out solidarity work with migrants for years and is a reference for Cuban immigrants who pass through his country. In 2017, Berrío told 14ymedio the need it had in the face of the exodus of foreigners, for which it set up, and then maintained for months, a shelter to host Cubans in the Caritas offices in the Panamanian capital.
The Caritas shelter, a non-profit organization of the Catholic Church, was home to 450 migrants.
According to data from the migration authorities of Panama, during 2021 more than 91,000 irregular migrants have crossed the Darien jungle, a figure equivalent to the total of the previous five years, so the International Organization for Migration has adopted measures to avoid this traffic and more deaths. Until October 50 bodies of foreigners had been recovered in the jungle.
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