My brother and I did not leave our parents behind, only to be assaulted on a month-long journey north and witness the worst, including people dying, because we simply wanted to. We did not leave the work we had and the life we had started to build because we would be happier looking for jobs on the street and paying what we could to sleep in a living room. We came because it was our opportunity to survive, because counterinsurgency forces, known now to have been financed by the Reagan administration, fought a dirty war in El Salvador. It claimed the lives of 70,000 people and displaced 1 million more. - Pablo Alvarado shares his journey of coming to the US and leaving El Salvador
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 17:59:40 +0000
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