Hispanic Heritage Month: Here's the journey of how author Javier Zamora made it to the US from the war-torn country of El Salvador at only the age of nine.
Here's how author Javier Zamora made it to the US alone from the war-torn country of El Salvador at only the age of nine.Hispanic Heritage Month has begun, marking the independence of several Latin American nations including Mexico on Sept. 16. ABC7 is kicking off the month with the story of Javier Zamora, who at the age of nine left the war-torn country of El Salvador by himself to join his parents in the Canal District of San Rafael.
"She promised to come back but the situation as we like to call it in El Salvador kept getting worse," he told ABC7 news reporter Lyanne Melendez.That meant traveling alone at the age of nine with a "Coyote" and others from El Salvador to the U.S.-Mexico border. It took them nine weeks.The word "solo" means alone. We asked him what "Solito" means.Alone, with only his backpack.
Zamora made it to San Rafael. He went on to graduate from UC Berkeley and was a fellow at Stanford and Harvard. The 32-year-old author calls himself an outlier.
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