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Josúe Díaz Gallardo, 34, died in the trailer located in Texas a week ago. His relatives ask the president to expedite the transfer of his body to the Sierra Norte de Oaxaca “We want to give him a decent burial”
Text: Diana Manzo / Istmopress
Photo: Courtesy
OAXACA.- “We want to give him a dignified burial, that is why we ask López Obrador to expedite the transfer of our son Josúe Díaz Gallardo” expressed his father Ramiro Díaz Cardoso, from his home in Tlahuitoltepec, Mixe in the northern highlands of Oaxaca.
Josué Díaz Gallardo, 34 years old, is the Oaxacan who died along with 52 other Mexicans and Central Americans in the migrant tragedy that occurred last Monday in San Antonio, Texas, and was originally from Santa María Tlahuitoltepec, Mixe in the northern highlands of Oaxaca.
From this place where the clouds intertwine with the hills located 114 kilometers from the capital of Oaxaca, his parents assured that they live in prolonged pain due to the death of their son.
In his Mixe language, his father asked the Mexican president for help to expedite the process of his transfer.
He also asked the US authorities not to cremate the body and facilitate the repatriation procedures so that his family can bury him in the municipal cemetery, with the religious rituals that characterize his Mixe community.
Francisco Javier Díaz Gallardo, brother of Josué explained that another of his brothers, who lives in the United States, has already confirmed the death of his brother, but the Mexican Consulate there in Texas is not facilitating the procedures.
Our request is that they help us transfer our brother, because the Mexican consulate in Texas is not doing its job,” he insisted.
He added that his brother has already been recognized, and that his only wish is to get him out of the place where he is and give him a burial in his community.
“Four days before what happened, I spoke with him and he told us that he was in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, in Mexico, and that he did not know that he would try to cross the border with the United States inside a box with a trailer,” he said.
In Tlahuitoltepec, Josúe was employed as a collective taxi driver. He was separated from his partner, with whom he had a minor child. One of Joshua’s dreams was to build his house.
This note was originally published in ISTMO PRESS, which is part of the Media Alliance of the Network of Journalists on Foot. Here you can consult the original post
