Guatemala
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- So, it all started in 1981 with my mom...
- It was 1981 outside the Guatemalan parliament building.
- I'm scared, what if the government finds out that I helped those native farmers?
- It's okay Rosa, i'm sure it'll be fine.
- I don't like it here it's too cold. I wonder if we should move?
- Okay, I will go to Toronto and see if it is a good place to live.
- So, he went to Toronto and told us that he loved it, so a few weeks later we got on a train to Toronto.
- But a few days later the government rounded up a lot of people and put them on a dark bus
- Oh no!
- Come here!
- Thankfully one of my mom's friends in the government helped her out but she never found out what happened to the other people on the bus.
- Please let her go?
- Okay, I guess
- We stayed in a small 1 room apartment there for a while, eventually we moved to a bigger one.
- School was very hard for me because I didn't speak english and because of all the time I missed I was held back 2 grades.
- Later on my mom started thinking...
- I wonder if we should leave Guatemala, it's not safe anymore
- But, first she had to get permission from my dad.
- Please Carlos, if I take him to Canada he will have a much better life
- I don't know Rosa, I love him so much I don't want to lose him
- I graduated high school when I was 19, and we didn't have a lot of money so I worked my way though school at the Ontario College of Art
- I met your mom in college when we worked in the same restaurant.
- I know but it's what is best for him
- Okay, I just want him to be happy.
- My mom and step-dad, Nery had to go to Mexico to see if we could come to Candid
- I'm sorry honey but we will be gone for 3 months, you will stay with abuela Carmen
- NO, I don't want you guys to go!
- A few years later in 2002 you were born.
- Eventually they came back and said it was ok to go to Canada but they couldn't bring my little brother with us.
- i'm so sorry honey
- NO mami don't leave!
- Everyone came to say goodbye to us.
- I was only 11 so I wasn't sure what was happening, it didn't click that we were never coming back.
- Bye, be safe!
- My mom had a friend at the Mexican border to get us through illegally, but Nery had to cross the river.
- I will, don't worry
- We checked in to a cheap motel in Mexico
- Maybe 2 or 3 nights
- How long do we have to stay here?
- A few days later we took another bus all the way to Mexico city
- We stayed In a small apartment there for about 3 months
- While we were there we made friends with the other tenants .
- Hi!
- So it was sad when we had to leave.
- Bye!
- When we landed in Chicago for a stopover and they locked us and all the refugees in a room so we wouldn't come into the U.S.
- Eventually we ended up in Winnipeg. We lived there for a year and a half.
- It's s so c cold!!!
- By this time it was 1984 and my mom had a baby girl, Jimena, your aunt.
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