She said she and Ana Luz, 31, were very close and spoke on video calls every day. Her sister always had Kleiber by her side.
“Wherever she went, her son went too. Whatever Kleiber wanted, she would please him. If she didn’t have money, she would call me and say, ‘Kleiber wants this’ or ‘He’s missing this,'” Andreína said.
“My sister is my older sister, and I always trusted her and told her my concerns, and every time we had a video call, my child was by my side.”
Andreína said she was certain her sister would have been next to Kleiber in the rubble.
As she sat with her nephew in the hospital, desperate search and rescue efforts were continuing after the earthquake.
The official number of deaths was 2,295, but the final death toll is expected to be several times higher. Tens of thousands of people have been reported missing, and the United Nations has said it will procure 10,000 body bags for the country.
Andreína said Kleiber’s parents had not lost hope that they would be rescued.
“Just as they found my niece, I believe they will find my sister and brother-in-law,” she said.
Looking fondly at Kleiber, she said she believes “he has a purpose in the world.”
“When this child grows up, God willing, this will be his story,” she said.
Additional reporting by Euridice Ledezma
