Ana Miguel Miguel, age TK, in her home in the hilltop town indigenous town of Chuitzamchaj, where she lives with her two young daughters. Ana’s husband and the father of her daughters, Francisco Tepaz Simaj, 22, died in the tractor trailer incident in San Antonio in June 2022. Ana comes from the coastal plains, where she grew up in a poor village of subsistence farmers who pick coffee seasonally and work in the sugarcane plantations that belong to major multinational companies. She married Francisco, her foreman on a coffee plantation, after working together with him for two summers. She moved to Chuitzamchaj to live in Francisco’s house, and has remained there other avoid moving back to her hometown, which is plagued by crime and violence.
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