Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero

In late March of 1990, an international corridor of grief opened between New York and Honduras.

Forty-eight bodies were flown home to San Pedro Sula on an emergency Red Cross charter flight, received directly on the tarmac by Honduran President Rafael Leonardo Callejas.

On April 20th, 1990, 750 mourners crowded into St. Thomas Aquinas Church on Crotona Parkway.

Hundreds more stood outside in the cold Bronx air, listening to the eulogy of a public loudspeakers.