Sean Hawkey Photography

Image 1 of 1
Less

Honduras_Hawkey_20180311_722.jpg

Add to Cart Add to Lightbox Download

Jesus Waiting to Die.

Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz

"I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.

I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)

I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.
We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war."

The health service in Honduras has been affected by large-scale embezzlement by senior government officials including the substitution of medical pharmaceuticals with tablets made of flour.

Jesus died peacefully at home in April.

Copyright
(c) Sean Hawkey All Rights Reserved sean@hawkey.co.uk
Image Size
5760x3840 / 14.6MB
Keywords
Contained in galleries
Honduras: The Real Face of Jesus
Jesus Waiting to Die. <br /> <br /> Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz <br /> <br /> "I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.<br /> <br /> I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)<br /> <br /> I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.<br /> We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war." <br /> <br /> The health service in Honduras has been affected by large-scale embezzlement by senior government officials including the substitution of medical pharmaceuticals with tablets made of flour.<br /> <br /> Jesus died peacefully at home in April.