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Simple advice from a mate to continue to be close to the doorway may possibly have saved Yenifer Yulisa Cardona Tomás from the lethal destiny that befell 53 other migrants when they were abandoned trapped in a sweltering semi-trailer past 7 days on the edge of San Antonio.

Speaking by phone from her medical center bed Monday, the 20-calendar year-previous from Guatemala’s money stated it was now warm on June 27 when she stepped out of the warehouse on the Texas facet of the Mexico border the place she had been ready and climbed into the again of the trailer.

She explained the smugglers confiscated their cellphones and included the trailer’s flooring with what she believes was powdered chicken bouillon, seemingly to toss off any canine at checkpoints. As she sat stuffed inside the stifling trailer with dozens of others, the powder stung her skin.

Remembering her friend’s warning to continue to be around the door where it would be cooler, Cardona Tomás shared the guidance with a further pal she experienced made during the journey.

“I advised a good friend that we should not go to the back again and should remain around (the entrance), in the very same position with out transferring,” stated Cardona Tomás, who is being addressed at Methodist Clinic Metropolitan in San Antonio. That mate survived, way too.

As the truck moved on, generating further stops to select up additional migrants, folks commenced to cluster in close proximity to the door like Cardona Tomás. She experienced no way to track the time.

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Mynor Cardona shows a photo on his cellphone of his daughter Yenifer Yulisa Cardona Tomás at the clinic while getting a check out in Guatemala Town on Monday. Oliver de Ros / AP

“The persons have been yelling, some cried. Mostly women of all ages had been contacting for it to cease and to open the doors due to the fact it was warm, that they could not breathe,” she stated, however laboring a bit to communicate right after staying intubated at the medical center.

She stated the driver or an individual else in the taxi yelled back that “we were about to arrive, that there have been 20 minutes left, six minutes.”

“People questioned for drinking water, some had operate out, other individuals carried some,” she reported.

The truck would continue halting once in a while, but just before she misplaced consciousness it was relocating slowly. She woke up in the hospital.

The driver and three some others were being arrested and billed by U.S. prosecutors.

Guatemala’s Foreign Ministry has said that 20 Guatemalans died in the incident, 16 of whom have been positively identified. Overseas Minister Mario Búcaro stated he hoped the first bodies would be repatriated this 7 days.

Cardona Tomás said the truck’s location that working day was Houston, though she was ultimately headed to North Carolina.

“She did not have a occupation and asked me if I would assistance her” in migrating to the U.S., her father, Mynor Cardona, reported Monday in Guatemala Metropolis, where the family life. He mentioned he understood of other scenarios of children who just remaining with no telling their family members and finished up disappearing or dying so he resolved to back again her.

He compensated $4,000 for a smuggler — significantly less than half the complete price — to just take her to the U.S. She left Guatemala on Could 30, traveling in automobiles, buses and eventually the semi-trailer in Texas.

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Mynor Cardona and Ufemia Tomas, the parents of Yenifer Yulisa Cardona Tomás, smile as they discuss with her by means of a simply call to the hospital wherever she is currently being treated in Guatemala Town on Monday. Oliver de Ros / AP

“I didn’t know that she would vacation in a trailer,” he claimed. “She informed us it would be by foot. It would seem like at the last instant the smugglers made the decision to set (her) in the trailer, together with two additional pals, who survived. Just one of them is still in important affliction.”

Cardona experienced stayed in contact with his daughter up until the morning of June 27. Her past information to him that Monday was at 10:28 a.m. in Guatemala, or 11:28 a.m. in Texas. “We’re going to go in an hour,” she wrote.

It was not right up until late that night that Cardona Tomás’ fami
ly discovered of the deserted trailer. It was two far more times just before relations in the United States confirmed that she was alive and hospitalized.

“We cried so much,” Cardona reported. “I even was contemplating where by we ended up going to have the wake and bury her. She is a wonder.”

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By Myriam

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