Javier
Javier, with the money he earned working with out papers in the United States started to construct his dream, building his house in his home town of Pinotepa Nacional, in the Coast region. His house, that today stands unfinished, has a living room, a kitchen open to the living room with a eating bar as a division, two bedrooms, one bathroom and a storage room (for the things you do not use as often). The brick walls are the only things standing. He would like to build a second floor with a balcony facing his brother’s house. His parents, siblings and cousins live in two houses in the same piece of land where Javier is building his home. He wants to paint his house blue and yellow and he would like to paint the second floor pink, his favorite color.
Javier has crossed two times; the first was in 2000 when he was nineteen years old. He lived in Fresno, California three years. By then he had already a wife and a son. He crossed because he needed money to build his home. When he was twenty four he crossed again, this time to Sacramento, California to work in a maintenance company cleaning department stores and other commercial establishments. What first caught his attention in the United Estates; where the beautiful streets, tall buildings and the security that he felt living there.
His is not married anymore; his wife and son live in Tijuana. She did not endure the separation and she now lives with another man. Javier thinks that reconciliation would be very difficult; he says that if he could go back, he would not have gone, because he lost more than he gained.
January 2009
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