Description

Laminated children's drawing consisting of a piece of beige legal paper mounted on a piece of blue construction paper. There is a rectangular piece of white paper on the back carrying an inscription in Spanish "Cuando mataron a mi familia los soldados Hondurenos y los Salvadorenos desde entonces mi sufrimientos por ser guerfano. Por eso denuncio a los demas pueblos del mundo. Que se sola risen con nosotros los refujia dos Salvadorenos. Mi nombre es Carlos". On the front, a blue undulating band crosses the page horizontally, representing a river. The rest of the composition consists of small green hills and human figures in brown and turquoise. There are four brown figures below the river. There are two brown figures and four turquoise figures above the river. All of the turquoise figures are carrying guns and likely represent soldiers. At the top of the composition, an inscription in pink ink reads "masacre en el rio lempa del Salvador en el ano 1981 - cuando mat". A narrow strip of word-processed text has been taped to the front, at the bottom of the page, and it reads "My father was killed by the Honduran and Salvadorean soldiers, that"s [sic] why I am suffering because I am an orphan now. So I call for people of the world to bring solidarity to us the Salvadorean refugees - My name is Carlos". This is a translation of the ink inscription on white paper that has been affixed to the back of the blue paper.