Guatemalan

Another Guatemalan family whom Chew worked with was told last month that they would be reunited with their 7-year-old boy, only to be told days later they that had to comply with new ID requirements.

Every night, Maria Allana, 52, and other Central American immigrants set up food stands at South Bonnie Brae and 6th streets in Westlake for what is known as the Guatemalan Night Market.

“The chaps there, we call them,” he said, a term I had never heard for chapines — Guatemalans.

Following two days of sometimes violent protests, Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo has withdrawn a decree which would have made car insurance compulsory in the Central American nation.

She comes from a traditional Mexican and Guatemalan household of barbers and construction workers where her parents were initially confused about her decision to act, but she says they later came around to the idea.