[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Calixto Rojas, of Nicaragua, drowned Sunday in the Rio Grande after he attempted to illegally migrate to Texas with his friend Elbe Castro, who survived
- Rojas and Castro were among several individuals who each paid a woman $3,000 to be taken to Piedras Negras, Mexico, and then smuggled to Texas
- Rojas was a radio host back home in Nicaragua but fled the country in December and left his family
- He told Radio Dario that he was forced to abandoned his loved ones after government supporters threatened to kill him and 'disappear' his family
- He drowned in the same area of the river where Texas National Guardsman Bishop Evans died April 22 after he attempted to rescue two migrants
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