El modesto misterio

AUTHOR

Guillermo Osorno

 Salvadoran still unidentified

Nobody knows his name. If it matters, but it does not matter. Better I will tell you what I think.  I think he is dead, that’s for sure. I think the hardest part is over. This is also  sure.  Although it was something that he was repeating along the way. He did not know that things could get worse. I think at one point he had to walk barefoot. I think he was mugged at gunpoint on a train before he gets at  Oaxaca. I think his life in El Salvador was not good. I think the  La Mala Salvatrucha killed  his brother or some other relative. I think he went to the  United States to meet with a family member, to see If they wanted  him. I think someone told him on the road that he was kidnapped by police officers and that they have asked for money  his relatives from the United States for money. And then the officers hit that someone, released him and he end up at a shelter,where the two met.I think he did not know what to say. I think he and the other people who died in Tamaulipas were grabbed to ask for money. I think when he had the blindfold, before he was shot, he remembered that he drank water from puddles and begged to eat.

Translated by Ruth Morocho