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Guadalupe: A Human Trafficking Story by Dustin Carter

Guadalupe and Antonio are given the chance of a lifetime after living a harsh life in Honduras: travel to America to begin their own American dream.

The journey to America quickly turns into a nightmare as Guadalupe and Antonio learn that there are atrocities in this world that some people could never imagine.

Heartbreaking. Damaging. Battering to the soul. The type of story that everyone needs to read.

It’s horrifying to think that this happens in reality, that trafficking is such a prevalent and critical matter. And while it’s horrifying to think about it, this is some people’s reality. Millions of people’s reality. There’s more people enslaved today than there ever have been.

The author gives life to what a lot of Westerners have turned a blind eye on, telling us to look where it’s needed. Look where the media isn’t pointing; look at what some politicians, government officials, and those high in power are complicit in.

It’s a harsh reality, but it’s time for Western society to accept that we’ve been worrying about the smallest of things in life, quite unremarkable things, really. We worry about things that currently enslaved peoples could only dream of, because we’ve become too comfortable in this life. Honestly, we worry about some of the dumbest shit (of which I am definitely guilty of, for example, crying like a baby when I can’tstart a fire) while there are children right in the US who are living a life no adult should even have to endure.

Thank you to Dustin for writing about such harrowing but albeit pertinent topics. Keep writing, the world needs to hear your stories.

You can buy Guadalupe here. I understand that it’s difficult and upsetting to read. But just imagine living this experience. By reading this, you’ll start to understand the horrors that trafficked individuals face. Everything may look beautiful and happy and the world may seem like it’s filled with sunshine and the only ginormous horrors that happen are wars in the Middle East, there are people suffering right here in Western civilization as well.