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His name was Silvano Cántaro Tolentino. His story generates deep sadness for the way in which his life was taken from him, when he was only looking to get ahead.
This Peruvian traveled from Lima to Medellín with a Venezuelan and a Colombian identified as Andrés.
They proposed a business to buy and sell clothes. The price of the merchandise, to be sold in Lima, would be worth it. That was the promise.
Cántaro had lived in the capital for 3 years. With his dreams of entrepreneurship, on January 25 he took his savings and embarked on a journey without a one-way ticket, but with plans to return.
“I put my life in the hands of God, because I know that with him I will lack nothing”he wrote on his Facebook account. It turns out that they took him by land to cross the border, through Ecuador, until he reached Colombian lands, but illegally.
“They took him saying that the clothes there were cheap and that here (in Peru) they are going to resell and have a greater profit. With that deception they have taken my brother and my excited brother left “one of her sisters told the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo.
With February passing, Silvano’s brothers received some details of his trip. The young man had arrived in Medellín and was staying at a hotel in the area, waiting to make the purchase. On the 10th of last month, it was the last communication between them. Distressed, he assured them that the Colombian with whom he traveled left him on the street, after stealing his money, and he did not know how to return.
“I have no one, if not, I would not tell you anything. Please do your best, Janeth. Do not let me fall. I’m going to go to the ground with everything “, were the messages that his sister received by WhatsApp.
Days before, he had posted a photograph with the other travelers.
It was not in Chile, but in Colombia, where Silvano was assassinated
The relatives of the young Peruvian, Silvano Cántaro Tolentino, lost communication with him, after ensuring that one of his companions on the trip left him stranded and without resources to return.
Huánuco, a Peruvian north-central Andean region, would hear news of one of its natives who was already considered missing.
A neighbor of the Cántaros ran, cell phone in hand, to show him the video that was circulating on TikTok. In it, a young man, with a Peruvian accent, appeared leaning on the railing of a bridge. They rebuked him for saying his nationality.
– “I am Peruvian”, he is heard saying in fear.
– “Speak clearly. Speak hard! “says another voice with an accent similar to that of Venezuela.
Other subjects speak with the same accent, but what they say is inaudible. Seconds later, the horror in the register: they push him into the void.
“Delete it. What died died “, assures a voice that is part of a sequence that generated international outrage at the cruel murder.
It should be noted that BioBioChile did not incorporate the video into this note due to its rawness.
The young man’s family saw the record. They immediately identified their loved one. It was the same voice, gestures and even the clothes.
The bridge from which they launched Silvano is located in Mercaderes, Cauca, 14 hours from Medellín. It is presumed that the young man was there, on his way to Ecuador, seeking to return to his home in Lima.
His brothers arrived in Colombian territory. In addition to being clear who was the person in the video, they identified him through DNA tests and a tattoo on his ankle. There was no longer any doubt that it was Silvano.
On February 16, a Twitter account in Chile shared the material, ensuring that the event took place in this territory.
Other shares made reference to Valdivia, as a crime site. The xenophobic insults to Venezuelans and the recrimination of the government of Sebastián Piñera was also part of the dissemination. At that time, the exact place of the event was not known.
“Poisonous shit”
Colombian authorities are investigating the whereabouts of Silvano’s killers. They do not give more details of the investigation. They told their relatives that the geolocation, recorded on their cell phone, reveals that they were in Medellín. Hence, there are no other sites.
The perpetrators are not yet caught; This fuels outrage over the case that shocked the countries involved and also Chile, wrongly identified as the site of the assassination.
However, when the exact place of the crime was known, violent protests have taken place in Peru, where they demand justice for Silvano. Xenophobia against Venezuelans also took hold of some Peruvians.
“Nobody can kill us for being Peruvians” the “Out Venezuelans”, among the angry complaints, in Huánuco, towards the authorities and the foreigners who live there but have nothing to do with the case.
The Peruvian capital has also been the scene of discontent, specifically the Venezuelan Embassy in Lima. One of the demonstrations ended in riots.
The level of hatred that rebounded in the rest of Venezuelans, due to the murder of the young Peruvian, made Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza react.
“Venezuela demands that Peru comply with the Vienna Conventions and guarantee the protection of its Diplomatic and Consular Mission in Lima, while rejecting the xenophobia campaigns against Venezuelans in Peru and condemning the murder of a Peruvian citizen in Colombia”, assured the Maduro official, from Caracas.
#RELEASE | Venezuela repudiates the acts of xenophobia, aggression and persecution against Venezuelans in Peru and denounces the irresponsibility of the Peruvian Government in breaching and violating its international responsibilities, by promoting and allowing acts of this type. pic.twitter.com/asELIX8oEs
– Jorge Arreaza M (@jaarreaza) Sep 29, 2019
But in Peruvian streets you can see graffiti against Venezuelans. The phrase “poisonous shit” is read in Lima.
Silvano’s sister, meanwhile, like the rest of his family members, hold on to the fact that what happened will not go unpunished.
“The only thing we have as proof is the video, they are thought to be Venezuelans. Although we are grateful for finding him, there remains a great task, which is to continue looking for the culprits and make them pay for what they did “asked her sister, Janeth Cántaro.
Nothing is known about the Colombian, Andrés, and the Venezuelan (not identified), who traveled with Silvano. There is also no formal charge for the murder of the young man. Everything has come to nothing. Like the dreams of a person who entrusted himself, religiously, without knowing what awaited him.
“I put my life in the hands of God, because I know that with him I will lack nothing.” 36 days later, that is, last Tuesday he was buried in his homeland, Huánuco.
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