News that Aurelio Martínez was among the dead spread like a shockwave through Honduras, Belize, and Garífuna communities worldwide. His voice had carried ancestral memory, resistance, and pride; now his songs played at impromptu memorials where people wept openly in the streets. Officials promised a full investigation, but for many, the cause matters less than the void. A plane fell, a culture lost a guardian, and the Caribbean will not sound the same again.
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