72 migrantes #1 Miguel Ángel Carcamo edited
Miguel Ángel Carcamo
I learned about Miguel Ángel Cárcamo when he was already dead. I understood a part of his story, because like almost every Mexican, I have friends and relatives who are immigrants. Forty years ago, Miguel Ángel was born in El Guante, a town of Cedros, a municipality of the Francisco Morazán State (Honduras). He was accustomed to seeing that only those who had gone north could escape poverty. Thus, aside from the temporary jobs he was working, he managed to gather $150 and headed for the United States. He left with two of his brothers-in law and little after entering Mexico the officers arrested him to deport him. He tried to cross again, and days after, he was murdered in Tamaulipas. He left four kids behind: Petrona, 16; Angel Rogelio, 13; Jessica, 5 and Luis Miguel, 3 years old. On Thursday September 2nd 2010, his wife Marleny Suárez, 34, whom he had married two decades ago, led the wake in her house and the funerals at the community cemetery of El Guante. Miguel Ángel’s grave is now next to his mother’s grave who passed away a little more than 20 years ago. And I am filled with outrage and shame, because in my country the Zeta took his life away and also ruined his family’s .
Victor Núñez Jaime.
Translated by Fathia Ben Tahar