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The Guatemalan Towns Plastered With Icons of America
When workers emigrate to the U.S., the regions they leave behind often adopt identities that straddle borders.
Throughout this week, CityLab is running a series on borders—both real and imagined—and what draws so many of us to places on the edge.
From a hill, a woman surveys a swath of rolling land, quilted with fields and small houses. Two kids toddle toward the camera, but the woman’s back is in the center of the frame. She has draped a beach towel around her shoulders. A barrette lifts her hair from her neck, and the pattern is visible: the American flag, and an eagle with outstretched, gilded wings.