Salvadoran single lottery winner of 26 million dollars
An immigrant in the U.S., who had reduced their hours of work in a printing by the economic crisis, no longer have to worry about the matter.
A Salvadoran immigrant who had reduced their hours of work in a printing by the economic crisis will not have to worry about the matter, because it is the sole winner of $ 26 million lottery.
Isabel Antonio Zelaya, 46, who lives in Wyandanch (Long Island), where he worked in a night shift, not bothered to buy a Mega Million ticket on a Friday 13, which for many is a day of bad luck.
As it has done during the Last year, when morning came from his job as mill went into the cellar of the Dominican Second Peralta, where he spent three dollars on the game of Mega.
"I had a hunch that I was going to win," Zelaya said in remarks published on Wednesday in El Diario / La Prensa.
The new millionaire who emigrated from her country 25 years ago with only $ 50 in his pocket, resigned on Monday to press "Coral Graphics" where he worked for ten years.
"I pray that when I rise, I went down again," said Zelaya, who suffered the same problems of thousands of immigrants who come of their country in search of a better life.
On December 15, 1983 left El Salvador and came to the city of Los Angeles, California on January 22, 1984. There had to sleep in cemeteries and in places I had ever imagined, says the New York newspaper in its Monday edition.
Earlier that year he moved to New York, where he worked for 16 years in a tent and in the last 10 years in print, where a month ago he had been reduced from twelve to eight hours working day due to the economic crisis.
Zelaya, who lives with his wife Bertila, a 14 year old daughter and a son, nine, wants to use his money to buy a house, pay for the education of their children, to his sister restaurant, travel to Europe and do not forget your country, which wants to help children with the HIV virus, said El Diario / La Prensa.
also had some advice for all immigrants, "not to come to this country to be lost in alcohol and drugs. That fight for their dreams."
The lottery also paid $ 10,000 to the owner of the warehouse where they sold the winning number.
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