Vendors in an alley market in the town of El Carmen on the Guatemala-Mexico border. Betty and Arely make mixed corn and flour quesadillas, Don Roman and his daughter Auralicia sit by his used car parts for sale, and innumerable "hormigas" (ants)--men carrying loads of various contraband goods--scurry by as they transport others' wares across Mexico and Guatemala.

Vendedores en un mercado en el pueblo de El Carmen en la frontera entre Guatemala y México. Betty y Arely preparan quesadillas mixtas de maíz y harina, Don Román y su hija Auralicia se sientan junto a sus partes de autos usados a la venta, e innumerables "hormigas," hombres que transportan cargas de varios artículos de contrabando, pasan corriendo mientras transportan mercancía entre México y Guatemala.   

5 mins. Guatemala. 2012
Mael Vizcarra and Stuart Cardwell

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