The Light that has no End Shines for Braian Toledo

In an accident, Braian Toledo died, an honest and hardworking man, and an excellent Olympic athlete. 

16-year-old Braian Toledo won the gold medal in javelin throwing at the Youth Olympic Games; the last golden medal of Argentine athletics dated from 1948.

All television channels and other social networks talk about it.

Infobae maintains that: “It was just after 23 hours on Wednesday when a neighbor of the city of Marcos Paz of initials MF heard the violent blow of a motorcycle against a new donkey's back at the intersection of Provincial Route No. 40 and the Monteagudo street installed just a few weeks ago at the door of his house. (…) As Infobae could find out, Braian Toledo had spent the last weeks in Santa Fe, preparing his season at the High Performance Sports Center in that province. It is estimated that he had gone to his hometown, with a view to the final stretch of his Olympic preparation, which would take place at the Cenard in the Núñez neighborhood.

In the course of 2019, Toledo underwent an operation on his right ankle and by the end of February a period of 75 days of transfers on crutches had ended. He had to make a time trial recovery in order to achieve his main goal of the year to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. (…) Toledo never heard that on the Provincial Route No. 40, between Buenos Aires and Monteagudo streets, an immense donkey's back had just been installed last week. ”

Today I learned that donkey hills are prohibited on the routes. I am stupid as a neighbor and as a citizen for not knowing before. The municipality is responsible because they did know and do not care about anything. Now they are cutting pastures, painting other donkey hills.

This pain is terrible because Braian Toledo died for loving the land that saw him born. 42 years ago I was born to love that same land. I live in a land that hurts. That Argentina in which they kill you and nobody does anything has to end. We have to change each one of us and I am not talking about an adjective and heartless political class. I speak of each one of us. We are responsible for what we do not know, what we allow to do, what we forget.

May the Light that has no End Shine for Braian. My deepest condolences to his family. . .

Lía Olga Herrera Soto