{"id":6004,"date":"2019-12-13T16:54:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cahro.org\/?p=9454"},"modified":"2019-12-13T16:54:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:54:54","slug":"central-american-studies-was-the-most-important-class-i-ever-took","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/12\/13\/central-american-studies-was-the-most-important-class-i-ever-took\/","title":{"rendered":"Central American studies was the most important class I ever took"},"content":{"rendered":"
The U.S. southern border has become synonymous with crisis, and that crisis synonymous with the countries of Central America, particularly El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.<\/p>\n
In the ProPublica audio that went viral last year of crying children who were separated from their parents at the border, their tiny voices spoke a Central American vernacular of Spanish. In the iconic photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon, the family that was running from tear gas was fleeing Honduras. In another photo that quickly spread was the image of a father and daughter who drowned crossing the Rio Grande; they had left El Salvador for a better life. And most of the migrant children who have died at the border in the past year were indigenous from Guatemala…<\/p>\n