Human smugglers face a dry spell with Mexico's crackdown on Central American migration
AGUACATAN, Guatemala - These are lean times for Hugo and others in his time-honored profession.
He hasn't worked regularly in weeks and is back in college studying accounting, which he took up after ditching criminal science as unsuitable considering his full-time gig.
"It's just too hard to do the job right now," said Hugo, who makes his living as a people smuggler, or coyote, guiding migrants on the often-perilous journey from Guatemala through Mexico to the U.S. border.
A crackdown by Mexican authorities - acting at the insistence of President Donald Trump - has dramatically reduced the flow
