He died aged 11 on May 26 while waiting in a Venezuelan hospital, after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in February. That was the problem that sent him to the J. M. de los Rios children's hospital in Caracas in January. said Altuve, fighting back tears at his son's wake in his simple home in Petare, a poor Caracas neighborhood. Alejandro's chemotherapy treatment is paid for by NGOs as Alvarez cannot afford the $800 needed to import it from Colombia. She doesn't want to return to the hospital where she has worked for the last five years.

Source: Bangkok Post May 31, 2019 05:48 UTC