Collateral Damage: How U.S. Sanctions Devastated a Guatemalan Mining Town
José Trabaninos and his uncle Edi Alarcón were saying once again. Sitting by the cord fence that reduces through the dirt in between their shacks, surrounded by kids's playthings and stray pet dogs and chickens ambling with the backyard, the younger man pushed his hopeless wish to take a trip north.It was spring 2023. About six months earlier, Am