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Silent Footprints
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At twelve years old Carlos Salgado who dreamed of one day becoming a famous American Major League Baseball player, left his home in Quito, Ecuador for the chance of a better life. Traveling through Central America he made his way to Northern Mexico before members of a drug cartel assaulted him and forced him to turn back.
Five years later, Carlos tries the voyage again and vows to make it all the way to the United States. However, the corruption and violence he experiences along the way traveling the Darien Divide on foot, corrupt military and police, drug cartels, and death trains known as La Bestia (the Beast) his adventure is anything but easy. To repressed people the idea of living in a free country where the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness can become a reality drives them to extraordinary heights and well as test the very fabric of their being.
Carlos believes “he” is what the American dream is all about. The chance to thrive in a country whose form of government is by and for its people. The chance to live an ideal such as this turns this illegal immigrant’s search for freedom into the plight for oppressed people everywhere who want nothing more than the chance to shine bright in a better world.
“Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Emma Lazarus’ poem inscribed at the Statue of Liberty
Five years later, Carlos tries the voyage again and vows to make it all the way to the United States. However, the corruption and violence he experiences along the way traveling the Darien Divide on foot, corrupt military and police, drug cartels, and death trains known as La Bestia (the Beast) his adventure is anything but easy. To repressed people the idea of living in a free country where the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness can become a reality drives them to extraordinary heights and well as test the very fabric of their being.
Carlos believes “he” is what the American dream is all about. The chance to thrive in a country whose form of government is by and for its people. The chance to live an ideal such as this turns this illegal immigrant’s search for freedom into the plight for oppressed people everywhere who want nothing more than the chance to shine bright in a better world.
“Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Emma Lazarus’ poem inscribed at the Statue of Liberty
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