Bodies of father and daughter who died trying to cross into the US returned to El Salvador

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A tragic image of the father and daughter face down in the Rio Grande shocked the world and further highlighted the human impact of the crisis at the US-Mexico border. Their bodies were discovered Monday near Matamoros, across the river from Brownsville, Texas. The Secretary of Communications told CNN the Salvadoran Minister of Government and Development Mario Duran met the bodies on their arrival. Martinez's wife and the child's mother, Tania Avalos, traveled to El Salvador on Friday and was greeted at the airport by El Salvador's Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Mauricio Cabrera. Martinez's mother Rosa Ramírez toldRead More – Source