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Rey

Rey is a young man that lives in Union Hidalgo in the Itsmo region. In 2004, when he was twenty years old, he crossed through Laredo to the United Estates and established himself in Boston, Massachusetts. In Boston he had an incident swimming in a lake. He was drowning. Rey was rescued and taken to a hospital where he remained unconscious for six days. After leaving the hospital his lungs where very weak. The doctors in Boston recommended absolute rest.

When he migrated he arrived in Boston because he had family there and at his arrival, was enrolled in a bilingual High School for five months so he could speak English. He fitted in and quickly and had a gringa girlfriend. He says that the girls there where clam, that they did not use foul language like the girls in Mexico but that they were more liberal. Rey worked as a packer in the Del Monte Company, he earned up to one thousand two hundred dollars a month. With that money he bought a piece of land and cattle in his hometown of Chicapa de Castro. Also in the United Estates he became a member of a musical band where he was the lead singer. He misses the cold climate and the respect for the law. In Boston there where very few Mexicans, most of the Latin migrants where from Honduras. He liked to dance and learned to dance doggie style, something that intimidates many of the girls in his hometown, not all, some love to dance in that bold way.

When the doctor recommended him total rest, he thought of returning for he could not work anymore during his recuperation. He also realized how fragile life is and did not like the possibility of dying far away from his homeland, so he returned. At home, with the care of his mother and running daily to fortify his lungs, he recuperated completely.

Today Rey works as a broadcaster in a community radio station in Union Hidalgo. He is waiting for the opportunity of a job opening in an oil platform in Campeche, many of his family members work there.

April 2009