"Yosselyn spoke with her family for the last time. She told them she was afraid of the long sea crossing, and that Kevin was acting strange: He's always on his phone, whispering, hiding something."
"At 3:20 p.m. on October 21, 2024, her WhatsApp messages stopped coming through. That was the last sign of her. She is one of the 83 migrants who disappeared along this stretch of coast."
"I don't even know how I'm here, because we went under and it was really bad. I swallowed water, and somehow I made it out."
"I think what happened there already happened. And whoever could get out, got out, thank God. Some didn't. How many? He doesn't know. Who? He doesn't know."
Yosselyn Guerrero, a Salvadoran woman, was persuaded by her boyfriend Kevin to leave her job in Tapachula for Mexico City, despite her fears of the journey. They departed from a coastal town, where Yosselyn expressed her apprehensions about the sea crossing. After her last communication with her family, she disappeared along with 82 other migrants. Kevin survived the journey but remains haunted by the experience, unsure of the fate of those who did not make it.
Read at english.elpais.com
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