In 1999, when Javier Zamora was 9 years old, he left El Salvador in the care of Don Dago, who was his coyote, paid to shuttle him thousands of miles and across the border to the United States. El Salvador was not yet recovered from the ravages of the Salvadoran Civil War, a 12-year conflict […]
For those of my generation (Gen X), although there was a lurking fear of becoming pregnant at the wrong time in our lives and the complications that would result, for Cathryn Vogeley, becoming pregnant as a young woman at the wrong time left her very few options. Pretty much just marriage or living nearly nine […]