ABSTRACT

When asked to write for this book I was excited, and all these ideas came to my mind, but when I sat down to write, nothing came out. Here I had the opportunity I was waiting for, to tell everybody my story. How much, as a child, I had experienced violations of my human rights. Then I realized that my story wasn’t my story; it was the story of all the Salvadoran children who lived a war and had to fight to survive. I have been fighting for my people my whole life, and my family’s story is only one piece of a big puzzle that has to be seen all together in order to understand.