Parents are re-reading last messages, swiping through photos, waiting for a phone call and praying.
Clutching rosaries, residents of the mountain village of San Marcos Atexquilapan, Mexico stared at photographs of three of their own atop the altar at the local church, praying that teenagers Jair, Yovani and Misael were not among the 53 migrants whoThe wait for confirmation has been agonizing for families from Mexico to Honduras.
Teófilo Valencia, father of 19-year-old Jair and 16-year-old Yovani sat looking at his phone, reading the last messages he received from them. Hermelinda Monterde Jiménez spent the night before their departure talking with her son Misael."He told me, ´'Mom, wake me up,' and for a moment I thought about not doing it so he wouldn't go," she said."But it was his decision and his own dream."
The family did not hear of the ill-fated trailer until Tuesday. They tried to reach the boys, but the messages and calls didn't go through. They went that same day to government offices, providing whatever information could help in the search. A family friend had offered to help her travel to the United States, where she hoped to find better-paying work to help support the 15-year-old son she left with her parents and to find treatment for her disease."Dad, I've come to say goodbye," José Santos Bueso said she told him on their last visit."I'm going north."
"The economic situation, the social situation that exists in our country is very, very difficult," Rodríguez said."It is the reason that we see day after day, month after month caravans, migrants. It's because people have dreams and don't have opportunities."
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