Buried Apart
Margarito Garcia got to pick out a shirt for his baby daughter Nicole. It would be the last thing she would ever wear. Nicole and her mother Alberta died in an East Los Angeles hospital, the result of medical incompetence, last February. While many immigrants risk their lives and spend their savings in a quest to reach “el norte,” most want to be buried back in their homelands. Such was the case with Alberta and Nicole. However the border that divides two sides of the family also prevented the family in the United States from paying last respects at the burial site in the small and remote village of Pericotepeque in Puebla, Mexico. Grief was shared north and south when Alberta finally came home.
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