We Can Never Say We Didn’t Know

A photo of a drowned father and daughter makes us all accessories to tragedy. Will we do anything to stop it?

Colin Horgan
GEN
Published in
5 min readJun 28, 2019

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Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his daughter, Valeria. Via Facebook.

TThe story began like this: Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez fled El Salvador with his wife, Tania Vanessa Avalos, and their 23-month old daughter, Valeria — not from violence, but from extreme poverty, hoping to find refuge and a…

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