Cancelled due to Covid.
For the past ten or so years, families from our Bay Area Guatemalan adoption group have gathered this weekend to celebrate, connect, and catch up; to compare stories of travel to Guatemala and reunion with birth families. The gathering is our touchstone–a few blessed hours of conversation when everyone we talk to has walked the […]
Covid-19 in Guatemala
Fear of Covid-19 has changed the way migrants returning from the US are received in Guatemala. Nearly 1/5 of the country’s 585 confirmed cases have been traced to deportees, many on the same US flight. Backlash to returnees includes threats of home burnings and lynching. One young man tells of a mob confronting him in […]
Vitalina Williams
On Easter Sunday, Vitalina Williams, a Guatemalan woman from Tecpan, one of 10 children, in the US for more than 20 years and a legal US citizen, became a victim of Covid-19. She lived in Massachusetts, worked at the Market Basket and Walmart, in Salem and Danvers, towns close to where my sister lives, but […]