People line up tanks to collect water in a fountain, a place where used to be a coffee plantation, in Berlin, El Salvador April 1, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
LA COLONIA, Honduras/CAMOTAN, Guatemala (Reuters) - Towards the end of 2018, Honduran coffee farmer Mario Lopez paid a human smuggler, or coyote, to take him to the United States in a bid to escape the economic ruin engulfing him at home.
In mid-November, the coffee farmer and his 12-year-old daughter undertook a perilous 35-day journey up through Mexico after a collapse in international coffee prices destroyed the business that he had dedicated his life to, his wife told Reuters.
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