Both Felipe Gómez and Jakelin Caal came from remote indigenous communities, where migration has long been seen a reasonable response to Guatemala’s hardship, racism and violence.

theguardian.com/world/2018/dec… They also both came from regions deeply scarred by the civil war - a conflict in which the US-backed Guatemalan military committed genocide on the indigenous population nytimes.com/1999/02/26/wor…