Detenido, David Esperanza
Detenido, David Esperanza
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Detenido
El diario de supervivencia y determinación de un niño

Author: David Esperanza, Gerardo Iván Morales

Narrator: David Esperanza, Gerardo Iván Morales

Unabridged: 11 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/19/2025


Synopsis

El primer relato de uno de los niños que fue detenido en el infame campamento migrante Tornillo en la frontera de Estados Unidos y México.

David Esperanza tenía solo trece años cuando fallecieron sus cuidadores, su querida abuela y su tío. Ya que ambos de sus padres se encontraban trabajando y viviendo en Estados Unidos, David quedó solo en su pequeño pueblo en Honduras. Rápidamente se dio cuenta de que simplemente no podía ganar suficiente dinero para sobrevivir, por lo que tomó la difícil decisión de emprender el viaje al norte acompañado de sus primos con la esperanza de reunirse con sus padres en Estados Unidos.

Juntos los niños lucharon por sobrevivir el largo y traicionero viaje a través de Centroamérica y México. A lo largo del camino David y sus primos forman un profundo vínculo, hasta que los cuatro son brultalmente separados en la frontera de los Estados Unidos. Cuando es capturado y procesado en un centro de detención, ni David ni su familia son notificados sobre su liberación o próximo traslado. Durante los siguientes cinco meses David llevó un diario narrando detalladamente sus experiencias. Estas páginas cuentan una desgarradora historia de dolor, crueldad, amistad y resiliencia, formando un testimonio de la realidad que se vive en la frontera. En medio de la inhumanidad y la violencia sin sentido de la política de inmigración de Estados Unidos, David encuentra esperanza en la amistad y hermandad que forja con sus compañeros y en el apoyo de un intrépido defensor que lucha por el, Iván Morales.

Oportuno, poderoso e inolvidable, Detenido da vida a la crisis fronteriza.

About David Esperanza

David Esperanza was born in Honduras. When he was a baby, his parents migrated to the United States so they could provide him with a better life. At the age of thirteen, he and three cousins began traveling north to seek asylum in the United States. When they arrived at the border in 2018, at the height of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, he was separated from his cousins and sent to a child detention center in Tornillo, Texas. After five months of excruciating uncertainty, he was released and reunited with his father. He is now the proud father of a baby boy.

About Gerardo Iván Morales

Gerardo Iván Morales was born in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, and immigrated to the United States of America in 2000 when he was five. He is passionate about advocating for human rights and immigration. In 2018, Iván dedicated six months inside an American child detention center providing aid and support to detained asylum seeking children. On his first day, he met David Esperanza and the two forged a bond like brothers that lasts to this day. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mellie on March 25, 2025

I knew going into this book that it was going to shatter me, not only did it do that it also educated me on Trump’s family separation policy, something I always heard on the news, but never from someone who lived it to tell. This is the first-ever memoir of a child’s experience in a detention on the......more

Goodreads review by Zana on January 15, 2026

"The adults who have tried to actively hurt me aren’t as bad as all the adults who stand around, seeing what’s happening, doing nothing. Looking bored. This has been everywhere since I got to el Norte." "...in Charlie 25, in Tornillo, in this country, if you're a migrante kid, there's no stepp......more

Goodreads review by Kendra on July 22, 2025

This should be required reading in 2025. Just peels back all the curtains and shines light on the shadows in the most direct and humanizing way. Fuck ICE and fuck the US’s immigration policies 💁‍♀️......more

Goodreads review by Tenaya on September 07, 2025

Jesus. Everyone should read this......more

Goodreads review by Bethany on August 03, 2025

I finished this book yesterday and truly have not stopped thinking about it. I cannot recommend this highly enough. Please, read it, learn from it. And find a way to make a difference. The fact that D was 13 years old and attempting to take care of his 11 year old cousin had me in my feelings from th......more