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A Teen’s Detention Diary and the Man Who Helped Share It With the World

DEC 14, 202527 MIN
Latino USA

A Teen’s Detention Diary and the Man Who Helped Share It With the World

DEC 14, 202527 MIN

Description

D. Esperanza is 14 years old. After traveling with his cousins from Honduras, he is held in the horrors of U.S. detention in Texas. For five months, while there, D. kept a journal of poems, drawings. It’s his memory of survival. Months later, Geraldo Iván Morales found the journal, about to be trashed. Now, D. and Gerardo are coauthors of "Detained," a book based on D.’s journal. This is their story.

Latino USA is the longest-running news and culture radio program in the U.S., centering Latino stories and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa.

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