FUTURTA

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You know, if there's anything that my parents taught me

is that writers should be at the vanguard of change.

You know, we are the dreamers of the future.

We are the dreamers of a president that we don't have of rights that we don't enjoy.

That is our duty.

At least in Latin America or at least in El Salvador, that's how it is. From Futura Media and PRX, it's Latino USA.

I'm Maria Injosa.

Today a conversation with Salvadoran author, Javier Samora, on the role of believes he has a particular responsibility to understand and also change the world through words.

There is always violence and it's at the hands of those in power. We can begin to call that out and to say stop and never again and to truly mean those words.

In his work, have yet shared some of the most intimate and traumatic parts of his own story.

He migrated as a child from El Salvador to the U.S. and he first

captured that difficult experience in a poetry collection called Unacompanied. You might remember Javier from one of Latino USA's most listened to episodes.

It's called The Return. It's June 10th. I'm alone at home. I have impact. I leave tomorrow. We followed Javier as he was forced to return

to El Salvador after almost two decades of living in the US in order to apply

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