Jose Zelaya Went From Doodling El Salvador’s Civil War To Disney Animator

*Inspiring. Read this, it’ll make your day. VL

By Yara Simón, Remezcla

As a child in the 80s, José Zelaya drew what he saw: El Salvador’s civil war. Even then, Zelaya knew he wanted to work for Disney. “In El Salvador, I remember telling my mom, ‘Mom, one day, I want to work for Mickey Mouse,” he said. “My mother said, ‘There is nothing impossible for God.’ And that’s stayed with me since I was 6 years old.”

But the reality was that El Salvador was going through a dark period of time, and his parents didn’t want to stay and risk having their son recruited as a child soldier. The civil war started a few years after the 40-year-old was born in San Miguel, and it didn’t end until he was a teenager. By the time he was 12, he and his family had relocated to Los Angeles.

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