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Guatemalan migrants arrive at La Aurora Air Base on a deportation flight from the United States, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on February 18, 2025.

U.S. Deportees on Their Return to Guatemala

by Isabella Rolz

Two Guatemalan migrants share their experiences from a returnee center as U.S. deportations rise

Food
A person is seen standing through leaves.

A Mayan Farming Technique to Fight Guatemala's Food Insecurity

by Isabella Rolz

The K'uxu'rum system improves crop yields and enables farmers to adapt to climate extremes

A community member and tour guide promoting ecotourism walks through the rainforest.
Environment

Guatemala's Ecotourism: Migration Stopgap Meets Sustainability Vision

by Isabella Rolz

How remote, indigenous communities have reimagined tourism in Guatemala

A Mayan woman arrives at an event celebrating International Women's Day in Guatemala City.
Poverty

Modernizing Traditional Maternal Care in Guatemala

by Vrushali Thakkar

Aiding traditional Comadronas to provide quality care to indigenous mothers

A poster of an infant reading Estoy Buscando A Mi Familia, or "I’m looking for my family"
Migration

Guatemala’s Forgotten Voices

Children who were fraudulently adopted share their stories

Relatives and friends carry the caskets of Jair Valencia, 19, Yovani Valencia, 16, and Misael Olivares, 16, at their funeral in San Marcos Atexquilapan, in Veracruz, Mexico, on July 15, 2022. They died in a human trafficker’s truck, in Texas, in June 2022.
Migration

The Fraught Path from Latin America to the American Dream

by Isabella Rolz

The brother of two San Antonio truck tragedy survivors reflects on trauma and hope

A woman carries vegetables from the field at the end of the day in Tecpan, Guatemala, May 5, 2008.
Food

When Farmers Can't Put Food on the Table

by Isabella Rolz

How the war in Ukraine and climate change are affecting poor farmers in Guatemala

Tomatoes ripen on a vine in a garden in Santa Maria Chiquimula, Guatemala.
Food

Growing Beyond Cultural Barriers in Guatemala

by Isabella Rolz, Jorge Rodriguez

How a young Maya woman is helping other women in her community blossom, one garden at a time

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks at an event in Minsk, Belarus, September 17, 2020.
Governance

Leading by Example: COVID-19 Infections at the Highest Levels of Government

by Priyanka Sethy, Samantha Kiernan

Amy, a two-year-old migrant from Honduras seeking asylum with her parents, crawls on a dirt road after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States in Penitas, Texas, on April 1, 2019. The photo shows a small child craling on the ground near a giant border fence. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Migration

Children of Immigrants and Their Mental Health Needs

by Hannah Todd, Eliza Martin

We should create more comprehensive, accessible, and culturally sensitive initiatives for U.S. children of immigrants

Migrants in the "Remain in Mexico" program queue in Juarez, Mexico, on July 8, 2020 to renew their permission to stay legally in Mexico to wait for their immigration hearing in the United States. This is a powerful image showing people lined up seated with their backs to a chain-link fence covered in barbed wire. Some of them hold packets of papers. One of them has his head resting in his hands. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Migration

The Ripple Effect of U.S. Immigration Policies During COVID-19

by Tomas Arango, Caroline Lee, Hannah Todd

Self-inflicted problems of unsafe detentions and deportations of people with coronavirus impede effective U.S. responses

Migrant worker Cesar Lopez works the fields amid an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Salinas Valley, California, on March 30, 2020. Picture shows Cesar working with a hoe in his hand. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Food

COVID-19 and America’s Migrant Workforce

by Meighan Stone, Haydn Welch

Need health care and groceries? Congress should protect the immigrant workforce—even if the Trump Administration won't

Kidney disease increases are concentrated among farm workers in hot, humid conditions, including sugarcane fields in Central America, similar to this one in Jacarezinho, Brazil on January 1, 2019. Picture is taken at the edge of a field on a sugar plantation on a spectacularly clear day. The earth is brown, the growing canes are green, and the deep blue sky has little fluffy clouds rolling in. REUTERS/Marcelo Texeira
Environment

Climate Change, the Kidney Killer

by Alton Lu

Is chronic kidney disease the canary in the coal mine in terms of feeling the health impacts of climate change?