Claudia Caal Maquin, the mother of Jakelin Caal Maquin, who died in the custody of U.S. border officials earlier this month, was too distraught to attend the funeral of her daughter.
Of interest to me, the funeral came on Christmas Day. I do not know if that was coincidence, or if it was scheduled for that day on purpose.
Religious songs were sung at the grave site in the small, impoverished Guatemalan community of San Antonio Secortez. A grandfather also reportedly was too distraught to attend. Only two uncles and a grandmother represented close family at the funeral. The father, Nery Caal, remains in the U.S., held in a migrant detention center after applying for asylum.
The family are Mayan, of the Q'eqchi tribe, a people nominally Catholic, though retaining worship of pre-Christian deities.
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