Frontera Comalapa. – Marvin Alberto Tomás Tomás never knew his father, because when he was born in 1999, he had already died in Comitancillo, a municipality located on the east side of the Tajumulco volcano, in Guatemala; There the boy learned agriculture from his mother, Dona Angela.
In his spare time, he enjoyed hanging out with his friends to play football, a sport that made him famous in his country as he was one of the best players in the third division for the past two years.
The left-handed, as he was known in the youth team Comiteca, said goodbye to Ms. Angela on Thursday, January 14, because, despite a promising future in sports in her country, she wanted to look for U.S to help his mother and build a house.
He also had to pay the 80,000 quetzales (206,000 pesos) that he borrowed from a bankruptcy in exchange for his land, where corn, beans, pumpkins, bananas, soursop and other fruits are grown.
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He is one of the 19 people who were killed and burned in Camargo, Tamaulipas, on January 22. He was part of the group of 11 migrants residents of Comitancillo who own the American Union, of whom their relatives have heard nothing more.
Comitancillo is one native municipality Mom, with more than 80 thousand inhabitants. For four decades, thousands of residents have emigrated to the United States; started then Civil war in Guatemala it was at its strongest.
While migration has changed the look of the city – with concrete houses, mosaics and striking colors, unlike the adobe houses that existed in the 1980s – it has also mourned families, as some of these congregation had died. of the road accident that occurred on March 7, 2019 in the Soyaló-Chicoasén section, approximately 60 kilometers from Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, which claimed the lives of 25 migrants and 29 others were seriously injured.
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Angela’s son’s dream
“Marvin was a good player and had a great future, but due to poverty and limited financial resources, he decided to leave the ball, his family and his people to cross Mexico and reach the United States in search of a better future.
“He wanted a nice home for his mother,” said Nelson Cardona, a resident of Comitancillo.
Does that mean The left-handed He had been part of the Juventud Comiteca team for two years and was getting more and more noticed; however, he left the sport “because he wanted a better life”.
A week after Marvin left his country, he called his mother to say he was already there Reynosa waiting to cross the Mexico-United States border, I just had to wait because the coyote He had told them that “the crossing” would be Wednesday January 27th.
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From that moment on Mrs. Angela He didn’t know any more until a family from Comitancillo received a phone call at 1 p.m. Saturday to inform them that the 11 comitecos had been murdered in Camargo, Tamaulipas.
While the Mexican authorities spoke of attacks between criminal groups, relatives of the migrants they were already mourning their dead. Days later they traveled to Guatemala City to be performed DNA testing and allow the identification of the bodies.
It was until Tuesday February 2 that the government of Tamaulipas finally announced that of the 19 cremated bodies found in two trucks in Camargo, only four have been officially identified, one of them is Marvin A “T” … the son of Dona Angela … the Guatemalan football player that all he was looking for was a better life in America.