Date uploaded: 2023-12-05 18:02:20
Forty men died in a fire inside a migrant detention center in Juárez, México, on March 27. The fire came in the middle of a record year for migrant deaths at the El Paso-Juárez border.
Their deaths inside a locked cell were an international tragedy – the result, advocates say, of inhumane U.S. and Mexico policies at what the United Nations has deemed the deadliest border in the world.
Nineteen of the fire victims – nearly half the dead – were from Guatemala. No community bore a heavier toll than the Mayan K'iche villages in the country's Sololá state.
Read more about how these communities are remembering the ones they lost at the link in our bio.
📸: Omar Ornelas / El Paso Times
