‘Generous’ Baltimore Bridge Worker Supported Entire Honduras Community
A GOOD MAN
Though Maynor Suazo Sandoval left Honduras two decades ago, he continued to send money to his distant community, becoming a patron of his town even in his absence from it. He’s now one of six workers presumed dead after a cargo ship slammed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge while they were making repairs on it. Suazo’s brother, Martin, remembered him as “a generous man” whose kindness encompassed their whole community in Azacualpa, Honduras, NPR reported. While Suazo worked as a mason, a package courier, and finally as part of the repair crew on the doomed Baltimore bridge, his remittances paid for neighbors’ medicines and doctor’s visits and assisted the disabled. His money helped start a hotel that created local jobs, and he sponsored a youth soccer league to help set teens on a better path. “He always said that if we were to have kids with a healthy mind, that later become prosperous teens, then we were bound to have a better country,” his brother recalled. Since Suazo went missing when the Key Bridge collapsed, many have taken to social media to honor his memory. “Thank you brother for loving your hometown and your people,” one person wrote in Spanish.