Atima, Santa Barbara.
“Dad will be better for me this year, you’ll see. I will make them their home and we will buy the cows ”. That was part of the last conversation he had José Reynaldo Rivera with Heyler Fernando, one of his two sons who died in an accident while returning from Houston to Dallas in United States to America.
It was around 8pm on February 10th that his youngest son called him at the end of the track and told him they had already taken a bath and that he had left over the scraps of materials from construction he had in his hands.
That evening, Fernando spoke with great enthusiasm with his father, because after a bad financial year due to the pandemic, they began to see that they already had many opportunities in construction.
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“He was always concerned about my medications because I have diabetes and he told me he would build the house for us and buy cows to work here in Honduras,” the father said.
Heyler Fernando Rivera Santos (22 years old) and his brother Jimy Josué (27) were originally from Atima, Santa Bárbara, where they left a few years ago hoping to work to buy land and livestock in their town. But on February 10, after leaving work, they were on board a pickup vehicle when they had an accident with a truck, which family members say caused the accident.
Heyler Fernando and his brother Jimy Josué They were with their cousin Mixzaín Rivera, who was driving the car and was seriously injured. The three young men had a long day at work in Houston and had to return to the city of Dallas, since they lived there. They told their relatives that they had other jobs and that they needed to be there early the next day.
Tragic day
Family members in Honduras became aware of the tragedy on Thursday 11, the day it took place. another road accident in Dallas, Texas, among about 100 vehicles that killed six.
Authorities from the Honduran consulate in Houston contacted the brothers’ family who asked for help to repatriate the bodies.
“We are asking the authorities and people of good heart to help us bring our boys to this country,” said María Isabel Santos, mother of the young people, in tears.
She indicated that her children had dreams and were eager to work to help them.
“They told me, old lady, we want you to be fine.”
Jimy Josué left Honduras five years ago on a work visa and Heyler Fernando chose to go to the desert where he was lost for 14 days and turned himself in to Migration.
In a second attempt he achieved his goal. That was two years ago, when he was able to cover household expenses and medicines for his parents, from whom he could also buy some cows.
His younger brother in Atima also hoped that Jimy and Heyler would help him grow the crops on their small piece of land. He even said he had promised to buy him a motorcycle to help his parents with groceries.
In the center of the building is the wooden house that their children had promised José Reynaldo and María Isabel to build and furnish them from materials. “I know they would return because they wanted this country, they just wanted a chance,” said other brothers.
Yesterday, the family sent photos of their home and legal documents at the request of the State Department to carry out the repatriation procedures and to say goodbye for the last time in their country.