Champerico, Guatemala—Once one of the busiest ports in Guatemala, the streets of this small town are now desolate and eerily quiet, the silence broken only by fishermen who follow the path through town to the dry shores of the Ixtán estuary. On the [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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