Family of Castaway's Dead Companion Wants Answers

SHOTLIST : EL FORTIN, CHIAPAS STATE, MEXICO, FEB 5, 2014, SOURCE: AFPTV -VAR of El Fortin streets -Pan from street to the house of the Rios family -VAR of Romeo, brother of Ezequiel Cordoba Rios -VAR of relatives of Ezequiel Cordoba Rios MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS, FEB 5, 2014, SOURCE: MARSHALL ISLANDS JOURNAL - NO RESALE FOR NON-EDITORIAL PURPOSES - Jose Salvador Alvarenga inside an ambulance, waving hands to people SOUNDBITE 1 Romeo Cordoba Rios (man), brother of Ezequiel Cordoba Rios (Spanish, 22 sec): "We want him (survivor Jose Salvador Alvarenga) to come and explain to us what happened, what were the last words my brother told him, why he refused to eat raw fish, raw meat, or turtle's blood." SOUNDBITE 2 Romeo Cordoba Rios (man), brother of Ezequiel Cordoba Rios (Spanish, 10 sec): "That's why we have a lot of doubts. Why could he survive and not my brother, why wouldn't he want to eat raw fish?" SOUNDBITE 3 Romeo Cordoba Rios (man), brother of Ezequiel Cordoba Rios (Spanish, 26 sec): "What we say is that the government didn't help us. The government didn't give us the attention that we deserved. We went to see the mayor to ask for help, but sometimes he would refuse to receive us. Once we even went to his house to meet him, but they told us he wasn't there, although he was." /// ---------------------------------- AFP TEXT STORY: Family of castaway's dead companion wants answers / El Fortín (Mexico) - 06 February 2014 11:11 - AFP The fisherman who says he survived a 13-month journey in the Pacific should return to Mexico to explain the death of a young man who accompanied him, the victim's family said Wednesday. The survivor, Jose Salvador Alvarenga, has told reporters that the young man who accompanied him was a teenager who starved to death because he would vomit the raw fish and birds they ate during the ordeal. But the victim's family told AFP from their humble home in the southern state of Chiapas that the victim, Ezequiel, was a 24-year-old man and that they could not believe that...