By Ramzy Baroud
July 19, 2019 "Information Clearing House" - History never truly retires. Every event of the past, however inconsequential, reverberates throughout and, to an extent, shapes our present, and our future as well
The haunting image of the bodies of Salvadoran father, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his daughter, Valeria, who were washed ashore at a riverbank on the Mexico-US border cannot be understood separately from El Salvador’s painful past.
Valeria’s arms were still wrapped around her father’s neck, even as both lay, face down, dead on the Mexican side of the river, ushering the end of their desperate and, ultimately, failed attempt at reaching the US. The little girl was only 23-months-old.
The bodies of a Salvadoran migrant and his daughter lie on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, June 24, 2019, after they apparently drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas.
Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramirez and his daughter, Valeria. 💔 pic.twitter.com/YTJobjbqnX
— Jon Smyth (@JonSmyth01) July 10, 2019
Following the release of the photo, media and political debates in the US focused partly on Donald Trump’s administration’s inhumane treatment of undocumented immigrants. For Democrats, it was a chance at scoring points against Trump, prior to the start of presidential election campaigning. Republicans, naturally, went on the defensive.
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