Like a television story, Leida Castillo was able to find her daughter, Arleth Carolina Álvarez Castilloafter searching non-stop for two years on the Caribbean Coast. The woman was a teacher from Barranquilla and since she left her house on October 22, 2024, no one knew her whereabouts.
In an interview with Impact NewsCastillo confirmed that his daughter was found wandering the streets of Bogotá. Given this, he immediately went to meet Arleth again and recorded an emotional video as proof of his survival.
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Video of the meeting between mother and daughter
Arleth Carolina Álvarez Castillo and her mother Leida Castillo. Photo:THE TIME.
After traveling to reunite with his daughter, The mother shared a video exclusively with the Nación section of EL TIEMPO, where she is seen hugging the woman and singing a song.
In the recording, the teacher appears sitting, wearing a wool cap and with several jackets on top.
After receiving the news, Leida was able to travel to the capital to meet with her due to the support of the Malambo Mayor’s Office, which provided her with air tickets.
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“Since 2024 I haven’t seen her, I haven’t given her a hug, My family and I have been very worried, we don’t know where to go, where to get, where to talk, but I hope, in the name of Jesus, I find my girl,” Castillo declared in an interview with Impact News in February.
Not many details were known about his disappearance. and with the reunion it will be established what led the teacher to be away from her mother for more than two years.
The authorities will determine if there was any violation of your rights, in addition to the physical and psychological condition in which the Barranquilla teacher was found.
Two years of searching and a reunion in Bogotá: the story of Arleth Carolina Álvarez The teacher disappeared in Barranquilla two years ago. Since then, her mother did not stop looking for her until she found her in the capital. These are the first images of their reunion. https://t.co/QncaBbCew9 #ArlethCarolinaÁlvarez #Barranquilla #Bogotá #Reencuentro #LifeStories
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Disappearance of the teacher in Barranquilla
Arleth Carolina Álvarez, a teacher who appeared after missing for two years. Photo:Social networks
The disappearance occurred exactly in 2024 in the Golondrina residential complex, located in the Alameda del Río sector, in the capital of Atlántico.
Since then, his mother undertook a search that included campaigns on social networks, tours of different municipalities and requests for help from the authorities to establish his whereabouts.
One of the most remembered episodes of that search It occurred during the Battle of Flowers of Memory Sonia Osorio in the middle of the Barranquilla Carnival.
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At that event, Leida Castillo He toured the place with a sign that carried his daughter’s photograph. and asked the assistants to help her find it.
“Daughter of my life, you know perfectly well how much I love you, your brothers and I are eager to see you, I always pray for you, for your life, so that the people around you see you with the eyes of God.”that was the message that the mother sent him at the Carnival through the interview with Impact News.
Arleth is Master in Education and worked at the Cobateco Educational Institution, in the municipality of Sabanagrande.
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For now, Many details of the disappearance of Arleth Carolina are unknown and it is expected that in the coming days It is revealed what really happened to the teacher.
Raúl Andrés García Suárez
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