Enrique’s Journey
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 09.30.03 | 11:56 AM ET
The Los Angeles Times debuted a massive six-part series Sunday about Enrique, a teenager from Honduras who traveled to the United States alone in search of his mother. The series continues today, Wednesday and Friday. The Times goes all out for this story, highlighting it on the front page yesterday and today, and presenting it on the Web with maps, charts, footnotes, photos and a video interview with writer Sonia Nazario. After two installments, it looks like Pulitzer material.
“His mother steps off the porch,” Nazario writes in part one. “She walks away. ‘¿Dónde está mi mami?’ Enrique cries, over and over. ‘Where is my mom?’ His mother never returns, and that decides Enrique’s fate. As a teenager—indeed, still a child—he will set out for the U.S. on his own to search for her. Virtually unnoticed, he will become one of an estimated 48,000 children who enter the United States from Central America and Mexico each year, illegally and without either of their parents.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
kristen Bruce 06.18.07 | 2:14 PM ET
This is a great and grittily realistic account of the desperate measures that the Central American immigrants are willing to take to find a new life in the states. It helped me to look upon my “vecinos latinos” with compassion.