We Have To Tell the Story Because We Survived The Ethiopian Army caught up with the boys at the Gilo River. "Most of us couldn't swim," says Isaac. "It was really very deep and swollen …
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Mateo's land in Guatemala is green and lush. But he's never seen it. He's never seen the house that he bought his parents, or the bakeries that he purchased for his brothers.
Posted September 14, 2006
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San Diego transplants from Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda
Reader writer visits his restaurant busboy's third-world family
Every day at 7:00 a.m., Mateo (names in this article have been changed to protect the immigrants) wakes up next to Maria, his longtime girlfriend. Most mornings, he hops out of bed, throws on his …
September 14, 2006