“I didn’t want to stay like a coward on an island where there were no cases,” Ballestero said. His relatives, used to Ballestero’s itinerant lifestyle, knew better than to try to talk him out of it. “The uncertainty of not knowing where he was for 50-some days was very rough,” said his father, Carlos Alberto Ballestero. Hoping he had enough food to carry him through, he turned his boat west. From the time he was 3, his father took him aboard the fishing vessels he captained.

Source: bd News24 June 28, 2020 23:03 UTC