In the meantime, Lourdes discovers that life in the United States is more difficult than she expected. His family and his girlfriend, María Isabel, try to intervene but make little headway. Frustrated with his mother, his own issues of abandonment, and the death of his beloved uncle, Enrique turns to drugs for comfort. He lives with his paternal grandmother for most of his young life, but is eventually kicked out of her home when he begins to rebel. Enrique is forced to sell food and spices when still a child, in order to help pay for family expenses. Over the years, Enrique is shuffled from one family home to another, while his sister Belky attends a good school and is well cared for by their aunt. Young Enrique has no idea why his mother has left, and his family in Honduras does not give him straight answers. Like many other single Latina mothers in the recent decades, Lourdes leaves her home and family to travel to the United States so that she might send money home for her children. She knows she will not be able to send her son and daughter to school past the third grade, and does not want them to grow up as she did, in extreme poverty.
Enrique’s Journey chronicles the life of a young Central American boy, and his quest to reunite with a mother who left him at the age of five to find work in the United States.Įnrique's mother, Lourdes, struggles in Honduras to support her young children, Belky and Enrique.
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