The Tomato Salesman (Part 3)
How a deported Carlos Marcello returned home to Louisiana
Mike Maroun returned with a doctor before Carlos woke in his Tegucigalpa hotel room. He had slept two days.
The doctor found Carlos with severe dehydration and three cracked ribs. He recommended bed rest.
Since Mike Maroun had a travel visa, he volunteered to fly home for help while Carlos continued healing.
Friday, May 12, 1961.
Carlos Marcello had better places to be than the Capitol of Honduras.
Abandoned inside the Honduras border, Carlos and his attorney wandered lost in a jungle until two “banditos” approached them yelling in a language the Americans could not understand.
Carlos reminded Mike Maroun of the three-thousand dollars in their wallets and threw himself and Mike Maroun down a hillside to escape the highwaymen.
Later, they discovered the two “banditos” were local tour guides paid by the soldiers in El Salvador to help two lost …
