Dreams And Nightmares: I Fled Alone To The United States When I Was Fourteen (working And Writing For Change) [Paperback]

Dreams and Nightmares?appears in full color in both English and Spanish.

Description

At fourteen, Liliana Vel?squez walked out of her village in Guatemala and headed for the U.S. border, alone. On her two-thousand-mile voyage she was robbed by narcos, rode the boxcars of La Bestia, and encountered death in the Sonoran Desert. When she was caught by Immigration in Arizona, she thought her journey was over. But it had just begun.

A los catorce a?os, Liliana abandon? su pueblo en Guatemala y se dirigi? hacia la frontera de los Estados Unidos, sola. En su viaje de dos mil millas fue asaltada por los narcos, viaj? en los vagones de La Bestia y se enfrent? a la muerte en el desierto de Sonora. Cuando fue capturada por Inmigraci?n en Arizona, ella pens? que su viaje hab?a?terminado. Pero solo acababa de empezar.

What People Are Saying

While Immigrants stories are often told by others, Liliana shares her personal experience of vulnerability, resilience and perseverance in the face of uncertainty. She is a strong and remarkable woman.

Mientras que las historias de los inmigrantes son generalmente contadas por terceros, Liliana comparte su propia historia personal, su capacidad recuperativa y su perse?verancia en medio de mucha incertidumbre. Ella es una mujer fuerte y extraordinaria.

Mar?a Sotomayor, DACA recipient,?Youth Organizer, Pennsylvania Immigration?and Citizenship Coalition

Stories like Lilianas counter the inhumane narratives that cast migrants and refugees as drug dealers and rapists, and instead offer US audiences a perspective infused with the genuine human experience of migration.

Historias como la de Liliana contradicen a las historias des?humanizantes en las que se equipara a los inmigran?tes y refugiados con narcotraficantes y violadores. La historia de Liliana ofrece al p?blico estadounidense una perspe