who is Ramón

In "The Bridge," Ramón is the narrator's uncle -- he is the son of the narrator's grandfather and one of his mistresses, and therefore the narrator's father Vladimiro's half-brother. Ramón lost his sight at the age of seven in a fireworks accident, and his wife, Matilde, is blind as well. They both work as interpreters at a company downtown, but they live in a neighborhood on the city's outskirts called The Thousands. Ramón and Matilde die when they walk off the edge of a collapsed pedestrian overpass, and the narrator is named executor of Ramón's estate.