In his new memoir and first book, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas, journalist Roberto Lovato traces the long history of colonial violence in El Salvador through the story of his family. Lovato joins Rattling the Bars to discuss his book and the lessons El Salvador’s revolutionary history can offer the world.
Roberto Lovato is an educator, journalist and writer based at The Writers Grotto. He’s also the author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas (Harper Collins).
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i neither hope for the christian decency of socialism, or more the radical revolution of democracy which has never been, nor the compromised incremental piece meal reform handed down by the smug billionaires. I am a realist: i expect just more of the current fascist and communist repression, exploitation, and eventually human extinction. The sooner humans wipe themselves out the better for all other species.
If an officer lies on the stand in a traffic court do you investigate that?
Great to hear the Zionist-Jesuit-Vatican controlled USA unmasked…
The US should have no obligation to take in "asylum seekers" (almost always economic immigrants), and we should keep the vast majority of them out. Concern for US workers/labor, and the environment should be our top priorities.
If their illegal immigration is caused by US policies, then we should change those policies, and try to retroactively help those countries. But the American people did not write those policies, and the people should not suffer the consequence of a flood of illegal immigrants.
What's sold to Americans is that people want to flee their countries for the "land of opportunity" it's more like they flee the USA messing up their nations.
Thank God el salvador has left the list of the top 10 countries migrating to the US 😎 and went up to the top 10 list of countries to visit.
Western financial institutions want to steal away the resources of central America and Africa
Most violence in history? 10,000 20,000 30 40 maybe 50,000? Do the research to sound more credible.
awesome stuff, pure truth!
Follow the money. So-called sovereign bankers profit from the forced separation of people from markets, monopoly currency and Apartheid concentration camps.
There is a form of communication that the global cult of sovereign banks may comprehend — publish MONOPOLY on the sovereign's Apartheid money.
Forgive, when due, sure, but forgiving is not the same thing as forgetting, and we can not forgive something that we forget. Forgiving is an act of will, so we must have conscience, whereas forgetting does not. There are many things that I easily and quickly forget, not having them in mind, but that is not about forgiving. We can forgive someone for an act against us, but can nonetheless retain the memory and a guess is that we normally do remember, or can anyway. Someone commits violence against me, well, if relations improve, then I can forgive, but will I forget? No. Some guys when I was young caused me plenty of problems when we were young and I don't forget this. It seriously hampered my life for decades. But do I forgive them? Sure, as long as they do not repeat their violent ways anyway, for that would make me very pissed off. I still have old memories that made me pissed off at the time, but I have long been able to forgive, so can forgive, but don't forget, We cannot forgive something that we do not remember. Forgetting is a matter of awareness or not, while forgiving is a matter of conscience, good will, ….
Cannot wait to read this book. America's role in C. Am, particularly Reagan's, has been so largely forgotten. Great interview, TRNN.
USA creates refugees and then rejects and mistreats them at the border. Inhumane to the core
I worked with Roberto Lovato at CRECEN and an other Salvadoran solidarity organization too. Though he would not remember me I certainly remember his profound work at CRECEN. I went to El Salvador during the war and that trip to the capitol and the countryside taught me a lot. I was bitterly sorry that the ultimate uprising in El Salvador failed, and worse, that the revolutionary ideology of that uprising has dissipated. I salute Roberto Lovato.
I fear that people who are ideologically left and who have worked for social justice for a long time might be in for a really hard time right here. But violence and repression isn't a new thing. I am old enough to have lived through the repressive McCarthy Era. The fascist impulse thst is tearing the world apart now, even and especiially in the United States, is frightening and it scares me. But it won't stop me. It hasn't stopped him and I hope it won't stop many others who hear him here and read his book.
Granted, the economy is crazy right now, but I keep hearing people say that they are making a lot of money from the investments they make. Some say investing in real estate, others say cryptocurrency is the way or stocks etc. I am currently working two jobs and looking for good profitable investments in which to invest some of my money, in order to see a substantial increase in my income.😓
Substance starts about 4:20
thank you so much i am so excited to read the book. your words spoke to exactly how i am feeling and have been for some time.
wait , MS 13 gang members that were deported to El Salvador , were they U.S citizens ?
Obama caged and killed children … . You got the caging part right , sorta , kinda . These kids came unaccompanied with volumes as high as 60,000. Where the hell you expect those kids to be placed if not in some kind of temp shelter .. as far as killing , that's a bridge too far
Blaming imperialism for every problem known to man is literally saying that brown people – in this case – are too stupid to comprehend the concepts of personal responsibility and self-determination. Further, if the US government is so manifestly evil and corrupt (which it is), then someone explain why its accusers want to grant it even more power and control by demanding outright socialism or communism, neither of which can be achieved without the implicit threat of government-sanctioned violence? And I despise American law enforcement as much as anyone else, so much so that I write about it.
I was a young child during the war and remember seeing the soldiers kidnapping teens from public buses to force them to become soldiers. This was made possible by the support of the US Government.
Widespread abortion, incl. of colored babies, is a weighty part of the violence in and degradation of nature.
Very interesting and important topics. I'll definitely pick up the book. I like what he said about his former comrades who have become part of the state power structure they fought against. When we get comfortable it's easy to get complacent and forget the struggle.
Oh, nice it's in audiobook format and I have a free Audible credit. Score.
Excellent and informative interview. Thank you so much.
Real talk poet warrior it's time to bring the balance back
Take personal resposibilty.
Wow!
The Marasalvatrucha are Ronald Reagan’s orphans.
Thank you Mr. Roberto; someone must tell de Truth.
True 😢