'I'm in despair': a mother and village mourn Guatemalan boy's death in US

[Judi Lynn]

Sofia Menchú in Yalambojoch and José Alejandro García in Guatemala City
Sat 29 Dec 2018 01.00 EST

Felipe Gómez Alonzo and his father left their modest mountain home with dreams of a new life. Now a community is grieving

From outside the flimsy two-bedroom shack, the sound of weeping could be heard as Catarina Alonzo mourned her eight-year old son.

Early in December, Felipe Gómez Alonzo and his father, Agustín Gómez Peréz, left the family’s modest home in the mountains of Guatemala with dreams of starting a new life in the US.

But the pair were detained near the US border just a few miles away from the Paso Del Norte port of entry in El Paso, and within six days, Felipe died in a New Mexico hospital – the second Guatemalan child to die this month while in US custody.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/29/felipe-gomez-alonzo-guatemala-boy-death-us-custody-home-village-mourns

[dewsgirl]

1. This is so heartbreaking, I hope these monsters have to pay for what they have done.