My name is Misael Martínez.

I’ve come to join

the caravan

that’s leaving tomorrow

from the Plaza Divino Salvador

del Mundo^* to the North.

I’m going with my

family.

We decided to leave

because you can’t really live

in my village anymore.

There’s no work.

There’s no way to get by.

What there is,

is violence, gangs.

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* The name of this plaza in El Salvador’s capital means “Divine Savior of the World.”