13 young Guatemalans who left for a better future were slain in Mexico, families say
As 15-year-old Robelson Isidro left Guatemala this month, he promised his worried mother he would stay in close contact during his journey to the United States.
She had begged him not to go, but he assured her it was for the best.
He earned just $3 a day toiling in the coffee fields around Comitancillo, a largely indigenous town in Guatemala’s western highlands. With a few years of American wages, he hoped to buy the family a house.
“We’re almost to the border,” he wrote to his mother, Maria Isidro, on Facebook Messenger Jan. 21, explaining that he would cross into Texas the next morning.
It was the last time she heard from her eldest son.
A few days later, she saw news reports that made her stomach drop. Nineteen burned bodies had been discovered in northern Mexico 20 miles from the U.S. border.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-30/guatemalan-migrants-killed-in-mexico
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This is just a sickeningly sad story. My faith in humanity remains in tatters. 
