HELP ANDREA WITH HER FATHERS FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS

Hello Everybody;

Last year Augs 2022 I started a gofundme asking for help bringing my dad back to America safely... No one really donated and I didn't want to continue to get his hopes up so I gave up. He asked me a few weeks ago if I could try again but then I broke my foot and got side tracked.

Today AUGS 4th 2023 I am now returning and using the same form to ask for help with his funeral..... I will never feel my dads big warm bear hug again and I am in denial and shocked and broken and still desperately need help. 

We need to make emergency plans to go to Columbia to retrieve his body and his belongings which is the worst feeling in the word because he was supposed to be packing to fly to America to be reunited with his beloved kids Andrea Marquez 32 and Victor Marquez (24) after 20 years being separated from his kids. 

Julio Cesar Marquez Chaumer was born Nov 6 1966 so sadly he was only 57 before he passed very suddenly and abruptly. 

The pain about how I failed to get him back in time to save his life is something I will drag with me the rest of my life. I was his oldest and it was up to me to get this process finished and we were cut short in an inexplicable way. 

My father was a bright funny fun man loved by many. He had a passion for teaching. He was a book lover, a movie geek, and loved his lclassic rock like Journey and STING. He was very active with his two children when in the short time we had together. Always taking us bike riding, to the museum, kayaking…. He is our life and we are his and will never understand why any higher power would rip us away from our reunion we had desperately fought for for YEARS. 

The reunion we were expecting was not to pick up his body and the emptiness he’s leaving behind is so immense… the black hole wouldn’t be able to swallow it.

I beg of you to show your support at our horrible time of need. 

I have never arranged a funeral before so I honestly don’t know how much to ask for… the fact that I can’t ask my father for advise on what to put makes me sick. So if the donation number changes don’t be alarmed. 

If anyone wants donate to me directly so we get 100% of the proceeds you can use the following:

Venmo @amarquez0009

CashApp $amarquez0009

paypal @amarquez0009 

Thank you from the Marquez family. 

 

I am attaching his unedited words he sent me for when he asked me to try the GoFundMe again and then below that I will leave our original plea from 2022… 

“You can change anything from it tho!Thanks Mona!” 

“I would like to start by thanking all of you who were so kind to show support to the little cause I began last year when my dad was kidnapped by some thugs in Colombia outside Bogota. He as you may know was taken when he was supposed to do an interpreting job for an alleged British person who was supposedly buying a farm an hour and a half outside Bogota, when he was arriving at the place he was told to go, the driver who took him there and him were taken by 4 hooded men with large weapons. The initial statement was that they were unknown people and that they did not allow anyone to come to that area without express permission from the FARC. “A well-known Guerrilla with a long story of wrongdoings in Colombia” After a few hours he and the driver were released under the condition to pay a ransom fee which they never paid. Fortunately, my dad was able to convince them that they were just regular normal people who worked hard to live their lives and had no money. They again allow them to leave under that condition and ever since they have been living a low-profile type of life watching their every move to prevent being caught again by these thugs or having to suffer any consequence after not complying with their terms. After this happened, he did not want to come outside and hid for a while at a friend’s house. He’s physically well but worried about that situation, working but barely meeting end met and trying as much as possible to avoid these criminals, but we want him here. Nonetheless, even though I made a GofundMe account when that happened was not able to reach the goal set to bring him back, still God was good enough to allow me to continue helping and he was able to get some help on his own finding a job that did not last too long since fell apart and we haven't been able to complete what we require to bring him back home to me and my brother.This time I urge you my friends, your friends and family to help me complete what we need considering we are in the final meters of this long road. Rest assured that whatever you do to help us will count and will be forever grateful to you…Thanking you with all my heart in advance for your help in this cause, goodbye, and Godspeed! 

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Julio César Márquez C.

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Bellow is the post from 2022

Only my oldest friends will be able to remember my father as he has been out of the country since 2004. My dad is a super kind funny, and intelligent man. He is responsible for forcing me to read Harry Potter as a kid, thus getting me hooked on the books. He’s also the one who inspired me to watch so many films and basically made me the glorious nerd I am today. My friends that got the pleasure to meet him when he was still in America can attest to his terrific character. Unfortunately, due to all the strange happenings in the world. He left for Europe and then went to Venezuela and stayed there for some time until the country was hit with very turbulent times, and it is currently riddled with poverty, food and medicine shortages, and crime brought to you by genuinely vile politicians and criminals.

There is no garbage system there. All the shelves are empty. Our once proud wealthy country is troubled with huge pain and unrest.

Due to this, my father looked for some safety in Colombia. Our sister country. He’s been able to feed himself at least there and get access to his life-saving insulin while there, but he has not been fortunate to find any work. For some reason, Latin countries are prejudiced against aging citizens, and work can be impossible to find, so I have been helping my father until he is able to get back with his loving children. A goal he has been pining for quite some time now, but for one reason or another, he has not been able to achieve.

He was doing a tad better there, but then this last Saturday, October 1st, the illusion of some safety got ripped right under all of our feet. As I strived to keep him out from being robbed and held at gunpoint ever again like he constantly was suffering from in Venezuela happened to him in Colombia, but this one was the worst of all as he was not just simply robbed… He was held hostage and kept for ransom.

As usual, he was just trying to be an honest man and get some work when pathetic sick criminals took advantage of him. On Saturday he was called to do an Interpreting job in a small town an hour away from Bogotá, to help out with the sales transaction on a farm between the “Colombian owner and the British buyer”. On his way there, he was captured and held hostage at gunpoint for ransom in a small shed. Four armed men were guarding him and the driver while he was on the phone negotiating with the captors. They demanded 25 million pesos initially, but after realizing that the two hostages were regular people and did not have that amount of money, they continued negotiating after all the imaginable possible threats.

They may have never gotten out of there alive if it wasn’t for this driver and new friend he asked for a ride to the job… he was the only one who had the means to speak to the captures as Colombian citizen to talk them out of the immediate ransom fee as my father has no one in that country and he absolutely couldn’t let the scum bags know he had family in America.

After such intense hours, they were finally released at 9:15 pm or so after forcing the two of them to make some promises, they are not going to fulfill. So, after 5 terrifying hours at gunpoint unable to do anything, they were able to come back home.

Since they do not have the money, they demanded to pay I am looking to get some cash, so he can move to another location while he waits for some issues to be resolved in order to come back to us. He cannot continue to be abused this way and robbed. WE ABSOLUTELY NEED OUR FATHER BACK. A good chunk of my paycheck goes to help him and I’ve been trying my best while working 3 jobs and just counting the minutes till he gets to come back into my brother and I’s arms. Immigration works slowly but we are hopeful he will be able to stay alive long enough to freaking get out of that horrible situation and eventually attend my wedding someday…

So, I am starting this gofundme as a desperate plea for help to get him back to safety. We were already scratching our heads with the fees and costs to get him back but adding this to the pot is just too much, and we can use ANY HELP anyone would like to give my family.

I cannot stress how important it is to get him back. Since we separated, there’s always been a big gaping hole in our hearts. It’s sometimes so intense it’s hard to breathe.

So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you, and god bless you all.