The family that lives in the Felipe Pirela neighborhood, in western Maracaibo, is heartbroken by this tragedy.
Mayerlin Mayor, mother of the girl who died in the Rio Grande, gave the painful news to her family in Venezuela last Tuesday, January 18.
To his sister he said: “I left the light of my eyes. My daughter drowned.”
Mayor, a 36-year-old teacher, tried with her 7-year-old daughter Victoria Lugo Mayor to cross the border from Mexico to the United States through the Rio Grande. But it might not fulfill the objective of reaching North American soil together.
The Mayor family is heartbroken. In the house, located in the Felipe Pirela neighborhood, in the west of Maracaibo, Zulia state, there is sadness; and only the crying of Victoria’s aunts and grandmother is heard. “This is very hard. She was the princess of this house, she was the light, the most beautiful,” her sister Mayibeth Mayor told El Pitazo.
Mayerlin Mayor left early Tuesday from a town called Acuña, in San Antonio, Mexico, for the Rio Grande along with a group of migrants and the coyotes that would help them reach the United States. Before leaving, she sent a photo of herself with her daughter Victoria, who was wearing a red jacket and blue jeans.
Upon reaching the river, conditions were not what they had been described. The flow did not reach their ankles, but was swollen. «I asked him why he decided to cross if it was high, and he said: ‘I don’t know; this is not what you think’. I guess I had to decide,” said Mayibeth Mayor.
Mayerlin Mayor decided to cross the river with the group of migrants until it no longer hit bottom. “She fell into a hole with her daughter. They were both drowned. She told me: ‘I was drowning. I wanted to die when I saw my daughter drowned. I wanted to stay there, but something pulled me out. God took me out. I was already drowned, I was already dead, “said the girl’s aunt.
