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    For Guatemalan town, US voyages are a rite of passage

    by Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times Jul 26, 2019 6 minutes

    TODOS SANTOS, Guatemala - This mist-shrouded mountain town in northwest Guatemala exudes a bustling air of good fortune, even prosperity, that may seem at odds with the landscape of subsistence cornfields and vegetable plots.

    Concrete and stucco houses of three and even four stories tower over traditional dwellings crafted from adobe bricks and wooden planks.

    The source of the housing boom isn't income from crop sales or occasional tourism. Rather, Todos Santos runs on savings sent home from the United States.

    "The United States helped me more than the Guatemala government ever did," said Efrain Carrillo, 40, outside the three-story house he built with three years of savings from working in the north as a laborer a decade ago. "I was deported, but I am grateful to the United States."

    The house features a ground-floor grocery store to provide income, while Carrillo and his wife live upstairs and their two teenage children live with relatives in the

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