In an article from the Los Angeles Times explaining why there's a crush at the southern US border:
"More than half of Guatemalans — including much of the country’s Indigenous population — live in poverty.
It’s a country where even the poorest migrate, often taking out loans to pay smugglers or relying on the support of family and friends in long-established immigrant communities in the United States. A 2022 study by the Migration Policy Institute and the Indigenous rights group Asociación Pop No’j found that much of Guatemala’s migration comes from the Western Highlands, a mountainous, predominantly Maya region hard hit by climate change and one of the poorest in the country."
It would be interesting to know exactly the dimensions of climate change, increasingly the blame for every human misery, that have been manifested in the Guatemalan Western Highlands.
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