Returning to Guatemala in a cardboard box after a migrant life in the United States

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Relatives carry Miguel Raymundo's coffin during his burial at the cemetery in Nebaj, Guatemala, February 2.

At 11:10 p.m. on an unusually freezing night in late January, the last commercial flight from Houston, Texas, landed at La Aurora Airport in Guatemala City. Passengers and their luggage were immediately unloaded. Just when it seemed everyone had left, the cargo hold door opened and airline staff pulled out two white cardboard boxes. Inside, two coffins.

Funeral altar made by the family of Miguel Raymundo during his wake in Nebaj, Guatemala, February 1.

A funeral procession accompanies Miguel Raymundo Raymundo's body to the evangelical church in Nebaj, Guatemala, February 2.

Mario López, a journalist from Megavisión, broadcasts live on Facebook for the family of Miguel Raymundo in Nebaj on February 2.

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