SAN
JOSE LAS FLORES, Guatemala (AP) — Gilberto Ramos wanted to leave his
chilly mountain village for the United States to earn money to treat his
mother's epilepsy.
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In an undated photo taken with a mobile phone, provided by the Ramos Juarez family, Gilberto Francis …
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Gilberto Haroldo Ramos Juarez, 11, brother of Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez, a Guatemalan boy whos …
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Students walk under the rain after school, at the community of San Jose Las Flores, in the northern …
The Guatemalan consulate in the
United States notified the family on Tuesday that Gilberto's body would
be returned soon, whenever there is an available flight. His father is
already preparing his grave site in the local cemetery.
His
bedridden mother stumbled to her feet Tuesday to pray at the altar
adorned with wildflowers, arranged where he slept. There are no photos
placed there because the family sent most of them to the U.S. to
identify the body.
"The
coyote told me that he was going to take him to a safe place and I
believed him," Francisco Ramos said. "But that was the fate of my son."
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Associated Press writer Katherine Corcoran in Mexico City contributed to this report.
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