At this Guatemalan Night Market, street vendors create a piece of home
LOS ANGELES -- Every morning, Julissa Corado rises with the sun to prepare her day's worth of goods. By noon, she and her mom load their white van with soup-filled pots, orange Home Depot buckets and a cast-iron griddle to heat up tortillas.
Then, they head to a corner of Los Angeles that reminds them of their homeland: the intersection of South Bonnie Brae Street and 6th Street, Westlake's Guatemalan night market.
The market, a cultural hot spot for Guatemalans in Los Angeles, springs to life every evening alongside the sidewalk, where street vendors set up their stands with pop-up tents and wire shopping carts. Although some vendors still struggle to get permits, market regulars say measures taken by state and local authorities to
