"On Monday morning I spoke with her. She said it was fine": speaks the mother of a young Honduran who died in the Texas truck

Honduran Gloria Quezada Machado receives hugs from residents of San Antonio, Texas, before the memorial for the 53 immigrants who died inside a trailer last Monday.

Quezada needed to come to the place where her daughter, Adela Ramírez, 28, who was traveling in the truck with more than 60 people, was found dead.

He also wants to physically say goodbye to her in San Antonio, because his immigration status in the United States prevents him from traveling to Honduras for the funeral.

"We are waiting to say her last goodbye so that she can return to our country, Honduras."

[He said “we're already in Texas” and his family never heard from him again.

They now suspect that he was in the 'death truck']

They spoke for the last time the same Monday of the tragedy.

Adela did not know that they would put her in a trailer, says her mother.

"On Monday morning I spoke with her. She said that it was fine, that what she told me was enough, she said that she did not want me to worry as a mother," says Quezada.

Gloria Quezada Machado traveled to Texas to physically say goodbye to her daughter, Adela Ramírez, one of the victims who died in a truck on June 27.

The mother visited the memorial erected in honor of the 53 deceased people. Damià Bonmatí / Noticias Telemundo

"I was very happy that we were going to be together," she says between tears.

The vehicle circulated at least four hours, from Laredo to San Antonio, without refrigeration.

Early in the route, the truck passed a Border Patrol checkpoint but agents let the driver through without a problem.

Three hours later, a neighbor found the trailer, with dozens of dead inside.

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Quezada has been in the United States for just over a year, living in Los Angeles, where she had hoped to be reunited with her daughters.

One of them had successfully traveled months before.

Now it was Adela's turn.

"They didn't want to come when I came. First the second came and then she. My girl didn't make it. This has been very hard."

It was difficult for the young woman to find work in restaurants in Honduras and she longed for a reunion with her mother, as she explained.

She but she stayed at the gates of the reunion.

A huge white cross bearing her name was erected a few miles from San Antonio.

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"May the Lord bless you in a great way," the mother told the neighbors who lined up to hug her.

Some told him that they were also immigrants and that they had suffered for their lives along the way.

According to Quezada, the authorities informed him that they will deliver his daughter's body to him in about 15 days and then send it to Honduras.

The death of the 53 immigrants in the truck is one of the deadliest events on record on a route fraught with danger for people seeking a better life in the United States.

The group was traveling without water or food, crammed in extreme heat and covered in meat relish to outwit police dogs.

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Christian Martínez, an alleged accomplice in the coyote network, stated that the driver of the truck, Homero Zamorano, 45, did not know that the trailer's air conditioning had stopped working.

Martínez, 28, also arrested for the tragedy, sent several messages to the driver on Monday afternoon.

At 1:40 pm he asked where he was, but got no answer, so for the next few hours he continued to insist in an increasingly desperate way, according to The Washington Post, which cites one of those messages: "Call me, brother !”.

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According to two official sources cited by the newspaper, the truck driver, who posed as a survivor before being arrested, was drugged with methamphetamine.

Until now, the authorities have not reported that the emergency services received any calls for help from the people who were traveling on board this truck, which apparently traveled more than 145 miles in Texas without being detected, despite passing through two controls. of the Border Patrol.

After nearly two hours of travel from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, the truck was abandoned 235 kilometers (about 146 miles) from the border with Mexico and 50 kilometers (31 miles) from San Antonio.