They steal a suit worth 20 thousand pesos in Tizimín, Yucatán

TIZIMÍN.— For 45 years, María Adalberta Couoh May has embroidered the memory of his people with thread and patience, to the extent that At 65 years old he has created more than 400 traditional suits.

Each one sewn with the same care as others write a letter or say a prayer.

After August 14, everything changed: a woman came home saying that she needed a suit for her daughter, who “is a student at a university in Valladolid.”

Mrs. Bertaas she is better known, agreed to rent it for 600 pesos: “He told me that as soon as I stopped serving him he would return it to me.”.

“I was very stunned, I had a family problem with one of my children and, to be honest, I doubted; “I didn’t want to rent it to her, but that woman insisted so much that I agreed to rent her the suit.”

“Because of my concerns, I did not ask for his credentials or telephone number, I trusted him and since then I have not heard from him again.””, he says with a broken voice.

Ask for help to recover a precious garment in Tizimín

Days and weeks later he called the people he knew, trying to recognize the woman’s voice, but he could not locate her, he only told him that she was a neighbor of the Santa Rita neighborhood in Tizimín.

For Mrs. Berta, nothing was ever the same again, because the suit was not just another one for her. The multicolored and elegant garment was special: it had just been finished and was worn by her granddaughter.

According to him, it was one of his most beloved pieces, valued monetarily at 20 thousand pesosbut with a greater sentimental value, “impossible to measure.”

“I made that one, I put a secret mark on it. Only I know where that mark is”.

María spread the photograph of the stolen suit on social networks. With the help of his children, he has been searching for her for two months, even She has offered a reward to anyone who can help her get it back..

She asks that if anyone sees him during the dinner party Tizimín fairwhen many women dress in embroidered suits, let them know. He believes that perhaps his will appear among them, because it is unique and he knows it perfectly.

“I don’t want problems, I just want him to come back”.

For Adalberta, the terno is not just simple embroidery and lace, it is the portrait of an entire life dedicated to the art of embroidery: they stole more than a dress from her, they stole a piece of her history.

The dressmaker shows the photographs when her granddaughter’s suit debuted, the only memory she has left.

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