"My mother came here first, and my brothers and I stayed back home with Grandma. Great Grandma. I lived with my biological dad for two years. Then 1976 came, an earthquake happened in Guatemala and then, obviously, my mom couldn't get a hold of anybody to find out. You know, my kids. OK so then she and her husband and one of my sisters, the little one that was born here, they went to Guatemala got us all together."
"And through my little sister, we got the papers, and it was decided that we were going to come to the United States. And we came, took a bus, came all the way across Mexico, got to San Ysidro, got our papers, came here to California. I'm like, they say, the rest is history,"
"Well, it's a responsibility to my mom, right? I mean, she made a sacrifice to bring us here, right? My dad made a sacrifice to let me come here, knowing very well that I was probably never going to see him again. So, I owe it to them to become somebody."
Erwin Higueros has been a familiar Spanish-language voice for Latinos in the U.S. and Latin America for over three decades. He immigrated from Guatemala to California at age 12 after family reunification following a 1976 earthquake. He lived with relatives and worked in a sheet metal company before returning to school for announcing. He took an announcing course, worked as a deejay at a San Jose radio station, and built a broadcasting career. He now announces games from the Spanish broadcast booth at Oracle Park. He attributes his career drive to sacrifices made by his parents and family.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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