The community of Leonese broadcasters will carry out this Friday, May 6, a radio talkative in order to raise funds and be able to contribute to the repatriation of the body of the Nicaraguan Calixto Nelson Rojas Bordasoriginally from Telica, a municipality in the department of León, who drowned in the waters of the Rio Grande while trying to cross into the United States.
The social day, which has as its motto “Calixto our friend, our colleague” will be held in the central park of León starting at 10 in the morning. For any donation you can deposit in the accounts in dollars 10020210182642 and in cordobas: 4589535990032845which are in the name of Teresa del Carmen Picado Quiroz, wife of the now deceased.
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 compatriot’s cries for help and desperation.
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The Mexican immigration authorities reported the event. In addition, photographs of the passport and driver’s license that were found in Rojas’ clothing were disclosed.
According to family members told the newspaper La Prensa, the migrant’s body is in a morgue in Mexico awaiting repatriation. Once the family collects the sum of 3,100 dollars, the Mexican funeral home “La Paz” would be in charge of continuing the process of returning the coffin to their country.
One day before facing the Rio Grande, Calixto Rojas informed a contact in the United States via Messenger that he would leave for Piedras Negras, in Mexico. “Tomorrow at eight in the morning I am trying to cross the river”, after an hour he learned of his death.
The tragic story of the Leonese announcer
According to Radio Darío —where Rojas worked for several years—, the broadcaster left Nicaragua to take refuge in the North American country due to threats from supporters of the Daniel Ortega regime.
In a letter, which according to the radio station the announcer shared with them, Rojas narrated his journey to protect his life and not starve. “One day I was heading home after coming from one of the roadblocks and they threatened me with death that if I continued like this they would make me and my family disappear.”
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«I had to make the hard decision to leave my family to protect their lives, because when a Sandinista march made up of workers from the mayor’s office passed by, they pounced on my house throwing stones towards the roof, it was at that moment that in consensus with My wife had to leave my house and therefore the country, “said the Leonese.
In Honduras, Calixto Rojas recounted that he had to go through a number of difficult situations, “like sleeping on the floor, going hungry, while keeping the money he brought, which wasn’t much.”
Then he went through El Salvador, Guatemala and Belize, in that last country he went through a lot of “suffering”, as he described, He had to carry vegetables, clean riverbeds, until he managed to work on a radio as an announcer for a salary of 12 dollars a day.
“I no longer had to carry vegetables to the market. Then it has not been easy, with little salary I decided to continue to Mexico, moving to Chetumal, Quintana Roo, where I have also gone through difficult situations, just like the previous ones », he narrated.
Rojas Bravo becomes another Nicaraguan who dies trying to reach the United States, others are detained by immigration authorities or have been kidnapped by cartels in Mexico.
