Forbidden Stories of an Immigrant

By Phern H.

Amilkar is a character that from a young age demonstrated intellectual capabilities which provided him with a premature knowledge of the hardships of life. The separation from his family upon enrolling in a seminary rewarded him as he acquired a formal and structural knowledge of religious and moral aspects. Some people play with the values and beliefs of religion and confuse the term with another word - church, he would say. Religion inspires human values, while the church is the social hierarchical structure that administers the means by which said values can be applied. If the church fails, religion becomes corrupted.
On another level, university taught him how to apply these same values for the benefit of humanity. Amilkar understood that in order to apply spiritual values, the body had to be nourished, and this was the real crisis of his country the unfair distribution of the wealthy. This second experience, along with a teaching career, helped him to understand the reasons and motives behind the attitudes and conducts of the students whom he helped, with the only intent to bring them out of the abyss of ignorance in order to introduce them to society as well prepared citizens for the benefit of mankind.
Finding issues was not difficult they could be seen everywhere: hunger, unemployment, single parent families, and misery. Solutions to these problems required political structures to be involved. This aroused unnecessary crimes against priests, teachers, leaders of worker unions, and many hundreds of innocent people. Crimes justified only by lies and savagery.
Amilkar dedicated himself to the search for passive solutions and this eventually led him to exile.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Palibrio
• Release date: Mar 5, 2012
• ISBN: 9781463320089

Phern H.

Acerca del autor del libro: “Historias Prohibidas de un Inmigrante” Phern H. nació en una comunidad pequeña localizada en la Ciudad de San Salvador, capital de El Salvador, el 8 de Junio de 1949. En 1968 finalizo sus estudios de secundaria, gradúandose como Bachiller en Ciencias, Letras y Matemáticas. Tres Años después, en 1971, fue admitido en la Universidad nacinal de El Salvador, Facultad de Economía como estudiante a tiempo completo. En la misma época fue contratado como maestro de educación secundaria por una institución privada. Finalizo sus estudios de economía en 1975 pero decidió continuar su carrera como profesor en educación media en la especialidad de mercadotecnia y Economía. El Sr. H., como sus estudiantes acostumbraban llamarle, hacia sus propias investigaciones y escribía sus textos escolares los cuales eran también usados por compañeros que impartían la misma asignatura en diferentes instituciones. En 1985-5, se graduó de maestro de Educación secundaria, con especialidad en Ciencias comerciales en el Instituto Tecnológico Centroamericano. Así continuo su carrera en la Educación hasta Octubre de 1980. Desafortunadamente su misión educativa no fue bien vista por ciertos sectores sociales y se sintió forzado a abandonar su país en Enero de 1989. Con la ayuda del Centro de Inmigración, viajo a Alberta, provincia de Canadá, donde se instalo con su familia. Después de recibir unos cursos de Ingles como segunda lengua, fue contratado para trabajar como maestro asistente en el servicio privado de Educación en 1991. Posición que desempeño durante cuatro años. Dadas las limitaciones del idioma y las pocas oportunidades para desempeñarse como maestro a tiempo completo, en 1994 se inscribió en la Universidad de Lethbridge, de donde se graduó como Bachelor (equivalente a una licenciatura) en Ciencias Sociales, con especialidad en Sicología, Sociología y Ciencias Políticas. En 1996 fue contratado por el Departamento de Estudios Indígenas Americanos, de la misma universidad, como Asistente de Investigaciones Indígenas. Su función era obtener y analizar información acerca de la participación de las compañías petroleras en territorios indígenas latinoamericanos. En 1997 fue enviado por el mismo departamento a la Asamblea Anual Internacional de la organización Internacional del Trabajo, en Ginebra, Suiza. En dicha reunión tuvo la oportunidad de entrevistar altos dignatarios representantes de países de habla hispana. En 1998, año de su graduación, fue contratado como maestro asistente substituto, por el sistema educativo oficial de la ciudad de Lethbridge. El mismo ano comenzó a trabajar como Trabajador de la Comunidad, para personas incapacitadas, trabajo que desarrolla hasta el presente. Roberto Hernández

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Contents

Unexpected Encounter

A Different Childhood

Experiences at

Junior Seminary

Community Encounter

National University,

a Second Option

The Possession of the National University

Amilkar’s Entry to the Teaching Profession

First Arrest and Threat on his Life

Politics in the Teaching-

Learning Process

The Participation

of the Church

Amilkar’s Second Arrest

Assassination of the Archbishop

A Decision That Forever Changed Amilkar’s Life

DEDICATED TO:

- All of those who support freedom of speech and fight against racism and discrimination around the world.

- Those who have been murdered because their believes on the Human Rights as the most valuable principle.

-My family that I left alive and now are dead and I was unable to assist to their funerals.

-My family who I brought with me and stay close with their support.

The Author

Unexpected Encounter

Meisa was a woman who had emigrated from a neighbouring country at the age of twenty-six years. She came from a family that was strictly Christian and she dedicated her life to the church, providing domestic services to a small parish church, at the head of which, was her uncle (the priest). Her brothers, eleven in total, worked in agriculture and ensured the prosperity of the familial properties. She was raised among men who used to paid little attention to the troubles of a woman, given their cultural traditions.

But changes began when Meisa’s mother became gravely ill—Meisa took on all the responsibilities of her care until her final moments. Almost at the end, she was asked by her mother to take care of the household even she was the second amongst her brothers, but being the only female, her responsibility was to take her mother’s place at home. Once the days of anguish had passed, her brothers agreed that she would now take over the role of their mother in the household, a role which had provided her with the only source of advice and counsel in the past. The responsibilities and the memories terrorized Meisa, and she sought guidance from the family priest who suggested to her the possibility of finding a different social environment. It did not take her long to make a decision and she took immediate action by stating to her brothers that she renounced all possible inheritance that belonged to her, and that she had decided to travel with the priest, who had been transferred to another parish in a country which, according to the evaluation or classification made by international experts, was included in the third world group. It had magnificent natural resources: coffee plantations, sugar cane, tobacco, cotton and other consumer products—all things that determine the status of wealth in an economic system. Unfortunately, only those born in wealth and the owners of lands benefited from any financial gain. They ignored the fact that the ones who deserved even the most minimal reward for their efforts were those workers who for hours and hours dedicated their lives to work the lands.

Meisa and her uncle left by bus early in the morning. It was an exhausting journey. Meisa was abandoning what represented financial comfort for her, but which at the same time limited the possibilities of having a future that she should find acceptable.

It took two days to get to her new home. Everything was different—the people, the buildings, the shopping areas.

Upon taking possession of his new church, the priest decided to hire her on as the main keeper of the temple to take care of all domestic duties in order to serve the religious community, he also offered temporary accommodation while she familiarized herself with the new setting.

Meisa did not go out except to fulfill necessary errands and had little contact with the community, save for ceremonies or special events. She used to go shopping for those who lived in the parish, on Sundays after her chores, at the main outdoor market in the area. That is how she began a new life at the age of twenty-six years in a new and unfamiliar country.

Also from an immigrant family was Whan, whose father had came to the same country from Europe, when the First World War had just started, at the young age of five years. His father had made and raised the family in a farm where the workers resided in a semi-feudal system. Whan was the second of six brothers and had the opportunity to attend the rural school, which he left after completing the third grade, which was customary for boys of that time.

He was nine years old when he started working to help the family—this of course was not a problem as this was expected and he was obliged to fulfill his responsibilities. His work consisted of proportionately helping the labourers that worked in agriculture and livestock. His duties began at five o’clock