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?
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5 min readJun 28, 2019
The 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…