“Solito”: Salvadoran Writer Javier Zamora Details His Solo 4,000 Mile Journey to U.S. at Age 9

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  • @cheri238
    @cheri238 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Thank you , Amy for having writer Javier Zamora on with is story.
    A story of courage, fears, struggles what is happening in our world. May we all listen with our hearts and hopefully with awareness with human compassion and love with insights to become a better world.
    With the deepest respect and appreciation to Javier, I want to congratulate you.

  • @dmike3507
    @dmike3507 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I don't recall a time mainstream media has ever interviewed an immigrant to get their side of the story. Thanks DN for doing _real_ journalism.

    • @robroy7456
      @robroy7456 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Obviously ur not paying attention. The question is if the story is real..or made up. U be the judge.

  • @curtrice6060
    @curtrice6060 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Javier, please help us become better humans. We love you , your courage and for making the U.S. a better place ❤😊.

    • @swazfincklestein1226
      @swazfincklestein1226 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why can't Javier and his friends make El Salvador a better place?

    • @guillermodozal7166
      @guillermodozal7166 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@swazfincklestein1226. He’s starting here, let him expand, like this incredible Guatemalan lady, Gloria Alvarez.

    • @reneangulotrujillo1
      @reneangulotrujillo1 ปีที่แล้ว

      powerful + amazing!

    • @MarioDadio
      @MarioDadio ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@swazfincklestein1226we are on it, thanks for your concerns

  • @LillianMirandaSzklarski
    @LillianMirandaSzklarski ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This interview was very educational. A perspective we hardly ever get to be exposed to. Excellent piece of journalism.

  • @maratisseraluna
    @maratisseraluna ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you very much Javier for sharing your story, and Democracy Now/Amy for giving him the space to do it. As other commented, it's hard to find news media accounts of migration that are dignifying for migrants or that show their resilience. I'm looking forward to reading Solito!

  • @Olivia-pe5vf
    @Olivia-pe5vf ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for telling our story. People don't know the suffering and struggles of this dangerous journey. 4000 miles to freedom.

  • @tomackabro
    @tomackabro ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is very interesting, This is almost exactly what happend to me in 2006, things are getting worst by the years, we still humans, thank you Javier Zamora to share your story, to me it has been very difficult to speak out what happened to me, I know is extremely hard. 🙏

  • @teddydavis2339
    @teddydavis2339 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    El Salvador is becoming a safe country and a good example of how a country can turn things around .
    Viva El Salvador!

  • @manatee_flips6811
    @manatee_flips6811 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    A great society takes care of its hungry, poor.

    • @erickmontanez8856
      @erickmontanez8856 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      that's true! wonder why are they are coming here?? muricans hate all that

    • @curtrice6060
      @curtrice6060 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It is obvious we are not a great country. The Oligarchs are inhuman! 😢

    • @manatee_flips6811
      @manatee_flips6811 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@erickmontanez8856 they believe, still, that America is the land of opportunity. Living in MX, not many folks running up to the USA border, mostly central and South Americans want to make the journey.

    • @kipdr
      @kipdr ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@manatee_flips6811 54% of illegals are from Mexico, according to DHS. Stop making stuff up.

    • @peterscholte300
      @peterscholte300 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@manatee_flips6811 there's still lots of mexicans making the trip

  • @doricetimko5403
    @doricetimko5403 ปีที่แล้ว

    The bravery, resilience and tenacity it requires to attempt this is huge. Thank you for sharing your heart and your story.❤

  • @teadivamuse
    @teadivamuse ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amy demonstrates her remarkable sensitivity and sharp journalistic skills here. A beautiful and moving result.

  • @gloriouse4458
    @gloriouse4458 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    😊✊YOU MADE IT 👏🏽🍃💞

  • @visibletoa11userz
    @visibletoa11userz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I donated my car that I used to live in to 826Valencia, the organization that launched Javier's writing career. Congratulations Javier!

  • @msgreen3135
    @msgreen3135 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My heart breaks for the children...

    • @swazfincklestein1226
      @swazfincklestein1226 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      People in developing countries have too many children.

  • @vinniecasqer840
    @vinniecasqer840 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mexico is the richest country on this hemisphere. Why not a shorter, more promising and culturally familiar place? Not what the Grifter class wants for us.

  • @curtrice6060
    @curtrice6060 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The U.S. obviously is not a Christian, or religious country. The way the U.S. is treating humans whom need a home, is inhuman 😢 !

    • @tobiisiba1641
      @tobiisiba1641 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There have already taken 40 million people illegally

    • @hull5768
      @hull5768 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Then neither are the countries they're running away from

    • @curtrice6060
      @curtrice6060 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@hull5768 you are correct. Thanks for the feed back.

    • @margaretnorvell9555
      @margaretnorvell9555 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bring them into your home.

    • @lukeolson5177
      @lukeolson5177 ปีที่แล้ว

      Christians are some of the most racist people you will ever meet. If anything the dehumanization of migrants is the most Christian thing ever.

  • @raulescandon4485
    @raulescandon4485 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Amy, there is no question US policy in El Salvador was very wrong. Several movies have been made about it. The main issue is how to correct Injustices arising from those policies and intolerable conditions in El Salvador and other Central America. I visited the region to investigate these issues. Blaming America for not openly letting all alleged refugees into the country is senseless. Proper laws on the subject are critically needed which Republicans are blocking including Sen. McCain's proposed Bill. I suffer with victims of improper/lack of adequate laws.

  • @charbuxs1631
    @charbuxs1631 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great story

  • @melissagomez9362
    @melissagomez9362 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've known so many people that leaves their children behind with grandparents or other family members, uncle's, antiea, etc.. to come and study and or work to this so called "first world" countries. They leave children behind not because they don't love them but because there is no other way to progress and to support them. As a parent all you want is to provide your children with better opportunities for them to have a more dignified future. It is sad and difficult to leave your home to go and live in a completely different culture and environment, even sadder when received with anger and violence. Desperation when there's no food on the table can make you do all sorts of things.

  • @SameAsAnyOtherStranger
    @SameAsAnyOtherStranger ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've read about community food closets being set up on the model as a way to distribute food to the general community in case of catastrophe. This model could be used to accommodate migrants for the same reason. But that would be a measure of pragmatism that is contrary to the general policy of externalizing the burdening of humanity through exploration that caused the immigration crisis in the first place.

    • @matthewingerson
      @matthewingerson ปีที่แล้ว

      That would be against the law, according to some people. For example: Scott Warren was arrested and charged with the crimes of, "harboring undocumented migrants" and "conspiracy to transport and harbor undocumented migrants," because he left food and water in the Arizona desert, just in case someone needed it. He was convicted by a jury in his first trial. But, luckily, he was acquitted by a different jury in a retrial. Scott has been on this show before. Your idea is a good one, though. :)

  • @marinafilippa5826
    @marinafilippa5826 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    La palabra "Solito":
    Toda lengua tiene una posesión secreta. En español, «estaba solito»; se podría
    traducir al inglés por: «he was all alone» [en francés: «il était toute seule»]. Pero ¿cómo
    decir «estaba sentadito»? [«il était là, assise, toute sage»]. Creo que no se puede decir en
    otras lenguas porque «sentadito» significa que una persona está sentada y al mismo tiempo
    se expresa la ternura y el afecto que se siente por ella, esto es una posibilidad de la lengua
    española. (Lo dijo Borges y lo encontré citado en un libro de la lingüista Ivonne Bordelois "La palabra amenazada")

  • @vinniecasqer840
    @vinniecasqer840 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Watch Amy's "sensitivity" during Katrina. Bodies floating by her and her spirits were peculiarly buoyant. A trait similar to her sensitivity towards the growing homeless population in the US.

  • @zochbuppet448
    @zochbuppet448 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yes the U.S should stop sticking its face into other country business and have no right telling other countries in the Americas what to do , or try to control them
    But totally open borders?.
    The U.S / Canada/ western far left view on immigration at this point totally absurd.
    So he was illegal in the U.S and couldn't go visit his country?...but isnt that the reason why he left.?
    But he was illegal, but still got most thing Americans received ...so what is the issue again?

    • @margaretnorvell9555
      @margaretnorvell9555 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They want to live in the safety and affluence of the US, but visiting there "dangerous" homeland several times a year. Just a whiny propaganda piece.

  • @robroy7456
    @robroy7456 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At what point do the people already here have a say? If I wanted to live in a country where it’s always been chaos why would I go there? Ur guest is a writer spinning a yarn.

  • @jessicachadwick9457
    @jessicachadwick9457 ปีที่แล้ว

    FREE DANIEL HALE FROM USP MARION ILLINOIS USA 🇺🇸 YESTERDAY. 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

  • @vinniecasqer840
    @vinniecasqer840 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Keeping the alternate reality going. Everyone is desperate and they're being flooded in to a land with no housing.

  • @Tonsirton
    @Tonsirton ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sexual Predator And Still Gets Away With It!!!😱😱😱

  • @LobsangThenrad-gp2lh
    @LobsangThenrad-gp2lh ปีที่แล้ว

    Sister, please tell me the actual news of the Tibetans, and I'm sincerity in asking for it, thank you.

  • @michellegordon4211
    @michellegordon4211 ปีที่แล้ว

    So...of the 6+ billion people in the world who aren't doing well, how many should the US take in (keeping in mind our population is approximately 340 million)??

  • @diannadima7082
    @diannadima7082 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why are we all reaching for our roots? It seems to be so prevalent anymore. Welcome home.

  • @vinniecasqer840
    @vinniecasqer840 ปีที่แล้ว

    A group of 15 homeless Hispanic men live in an abandoned strip mall in my area. They pan handle for food every day.

  • @garyjohnson8327
    @garyjohnson8327 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How many countries you got to walk thru to get asylum? Doesn't rung true

  • @jessicachadwick9457
    @jessicachadwick9457 ปีที่แล้ว

    FREE JULIAN ASSANGE HERO FROM BELMARSH PRISON UK 🇬🇧 YESTERDAY. 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

  • @1suitcasesal
    @1suitcasesal ปีที่แล้ว

    Do people from south and Central American countries think that we can fit them all into this country? Why can't they stay in their countries and work toward improving their countries? He says we are all just human beings, well so are we. Other questions I have for people wanting to immigrate to the USA are: If your country and life in it is so terrible why do you then have children? Do you care if your children suffer as you claim you are suffering? Do you consider that being a responsible person? This man says that he was born during a time of war in his country. Why on earth would anyone produce a child during a war? Bottom line: We cannot take all of you into our country. Please stay in your own countries and work to improve them. Also if you find that living in your country is unbearable please do not produce children who then have to live in your unbearable country.

  • @vinniecasqer840
    @vinniecasqer840 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rhetoric for the Grifter class who sees its mission as shuffling populations around for psychological terrorism is not journalism.

  • @swazfincklestein1226
    @swazfincklestein1226 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "3 million asylum seekers" LOL - these are freaking economic migrants!

    • @keithkessler3761
      @keithkessler3761 ปีที่แล้ว

      What are you saying? "Let them starve" ? Are you a Christian? Jesus said feed the hungry, take in the stranger. And He said, "I was a stranger, and you didn't take me in."

    • @swazfincklestein1226
      @swazfincklestein1226 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@keithkessler3761 No, we should not let them starve. But we can't take in everyone who shows up at our border or who illegally trespasses on our land.

    • @kipdr
      @kipdr ปีที่แล้ว

      @@keithkessler3761 This country lets millions of Americans starve everyday. These illegal jobseekers chose to come to a country that lets its own starve.

  • @BobJones-dq9mx
    @BobJones-dq9mx ปีที่แล้ว

    is he legally in the US?

  • @Wongrich6
    @Wongrich6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do people know the condition of US before going there and they'll end up farms work or fast food job, maybe some industrial that Americans refuse to work😢all because of free💵and make them lazy to work, but politicians blame games for another taking their job if they understand how they planning from pass that US keep stock market, hightech and etc😡👍🍺

    • @peterscholte300
      @peterscholte300 ปีที่แล้ว

      If they work for it it's not free money

  • @vinniecasqer840
    @vinniecasqer840 ปีที่แล้ว

    5 th Generation Warfare.

    • @peterscholte300
      @peterscholte300 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh vinnie what generation are you ?

  • @stephendalton1648
    @stephendalton1648 ปีที่แล้ว

    The parents left him behind?

  • @Ifnotnowthenwhen-r8s
    @Ifnotnowthenwhen-r8s ปีที่แล้ว

    What a bunch of BS , parents abandon you @ 1 and @ 5 but somehow they are good people that you need to reunite with....

  • @dividedconquered3784
    @dividedconquered3784 ปีที่แล้ว

    American Dirt is a great book as well

  • @beckyd712
    @beckyd712 ปีที่แล้ว

    There has ALWAYS been "chaos" at the border, taking draconian measures doesn't help anyone or anything at all. *Those 100,000+ people (human beings) are waiting at the border "camping in the streets" because the USA stopped everyone from coming in. By International law, we MUST allow asylum seekers to apply for asylum; we haven't been following international law IT IS TIME WE DO again!*

    • @margaretnorvell9555
      @margaretnorvell9555 ปีที่แล้ว

      The asylum process is not meant for economic migrants. They are supposed to seek asylum in the first safe country. They are coming for money and they bring their violence with them.

  • @vinniecasqer840
    @vinniecasqer840 ปีที่แล้ว

    MS 13 gang hand signal by Penguin Random House and DN.

  • @IlIlIlIlIlIlIIlIlIlIlIlIlIIIII
    @IlIlIlIlIlIlIIlIlIlIlIlIlIIIII ปีที่แล้ว

    Never happened.

  • @erickmontanez8856
    @erickmontanez8856 ปีที่แล้ว

    Robert Kennedy running for President on the Democratic party ticke

  • @80caligirl
    @80caligirl ปีที่แล้ว

    What is going on??? Immigration is normal throughout the world but now it seems excessive, is it because we are more aware off it than before or theres something going on ???