August 4, 2019, San Miguel Chicaj, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala: Marcelo Cahuec, 64, a former soldier and combatant during Guatemala’s gruesome civil war, lives without a pension, takes care of his 9 cows and 2 goats in the drought-stricken land of San Miguel Chicaj on Sunday. In its fourth year of drought, this region known as the a “dry corridor” of Guatemala has sent the nation’s largest number of migrants to the US, where an estimated 3 million Guatemalans – a sixth of the population – now lives. Seven out of every ten Guatemalans live in poverty, most of those indigenous people.
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
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