SAN MARCOS ATEXQUILAPAN, Mexico — After days of preparation and donations to cover funeral costs, this mountain community in eastern Mexico on Thursday...
People in the Mexican mountain town of San Marcos Atexquilapan spent days preparing and collecting donations to cover the funeral costs of three teenage cousins who were among the 53 migrants who died inside a semitrailer in Texas
Women cleaned banana leaves to make tamales, men carried chairs from one house to another, while the boys’ friends plastered a wall with photos of all three. Flores López had been living in Ohio, where he worked in construction, but had returned to Mexico to visit his wife and children before setting out again for the U.S. last month.
Hundreds of people from the area flocked to the families' homes, which sit in a row. The youths all played on a local soccer team and were well known.“I can’t accept it,” whispered Yolanda Valencia, mother of Jaír and Yovani. You have to “work hard” in life, “try to fight to make their dreams reality.”
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