Yolexi Cubillan trekked by foot and train over 3,000 miles from Venezuela to the United States in part so her baby could have a better future. In July, the Tribune followed Yolexi and her boyfriend’s family and a dog on their journey from the border town of El Paso, TX to Chicago, and on Labor Day weekend their story began a new chapter, with the beating heart from their son, a United States citizen.
Yolexi Cubillan, 19, buys food while waiting for her appointment at an Illinois Department of Human Services office on Aug. 28, 2023, in Chicago. Yolexi waited at the office for over eight hours.
By that Sunday afternoon, she and her partner Fabián Méndez, 20, sat in the visitation room at a hospital at the University of Chicago Medical Center, adjusting to the new tiny person they called Derick who slept in a plastic carrier on top of a wooden bureau across from them. They’ve settled on the second floor of a house in Englewood with Hugo Sánchez, the younger children’s father, who arrived last October from Venezuela. But it hasn’t been easy.
And as they’ve adjusted to their new home, they are unsure about the process for how to plead asylum, a form of protection that allows those who face persecution or harm in their country of origin to remain in the United States. Esperanza is worried about whether Hugo will make enough painting houses to be able to pay for their rent and food.
On another occasion, all five family members took a trip downtown to see The Bean in Millennium Park and Lake Michigan. They have discovered where their neighborhood corner store is, the tree behind the gas station that grows apples and the closest health clinic. Without her mother and the familiarity of her hometown Maracaibo, Yolexi had to find comfort elsewhere. She helped Esperanza cook chicken, potatoes and onions forA week before giving birth, Yolexi chopped onions and stirred a pot of rice on the stove, tossing her head back to flip her long, curly hair out of her face. She said she had been in excruciating pain for days.
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