Exposing Trump’s lies about Salvadoran migrants
NOVANEWS
By Karla Reyes
Guerrilla fighter in the Salvadoran civil war. Photo: El Museo de la Palabra e Imagen in San Salvador.
“Pueblo:
Si hoy por hoy te desvisto
No plagies angustias,
Desnuda tu corazon
Y por tus venas
Bombea libertades”
“People:
If I undress you
Do not anguish,
Bare your heart
And pump freedom
Through your veins”
— Leyla Patricia Quintana, nicknamed “Amada Libertad,” was a guerrillera and poet with the Revolutionary People’s Army of El Salvador and died in combat at age 21. This is an excerpt from poem VII in her book “Pueblo.”
My timeline has been flooded with sympathy, love and calls for action for the families being separated on the border. I see images of children in cages, crying children, masses of people standing in the desert. I also see “El Salvador”...