Guatemalan Sisters Reunite in Veracruz After 32 Years and Long Search teleSUR
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Maria Aida and her sister Norma Janet embrace upon reuniting after 32 years in the state of Veracruz (Reuters)

Update: Caravan of Mothers of Missing Migrants Arrives in Mexico City (teleSUR)

More than three decades after her family took her for dead after she disappeared while trying to reach the U.S. border, a Guatemalan migrant reunited this week with her long-lost sister, while a third sister remains missing.

After a difficult search, Norma Janet Rodriguez Ordoñez finally found her sister, Malia Aida, who left their home Guatemala 32 years ago with hopes of migrating to the United States and fell out of contact with the family.

The two sisters met again Sunday with the help of migrant justice and human rights organizations in the Mexican state of Veracruz. In tears, they hugged each other while supporters chanted "Si se puede!" or "Yes we can!"

They are still looking for their other sister, Reina Isabel, whose whereabouts has been unknown for two decades after she also left Guatemala en route to the U.S.

Norma Janet is traveling with the 12th Caravan of Mothers of Missing Migrants, a Central American movement traveling through Mexico to meet with other human rights groups and raise awareness about the plight of migrants from the region.

The Caravan, this time dedicated to the memory of slain Indigenous environmental leader Berta Caceres, has brought together a group of 41 mothers from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua who have decided to retrace the often perilous routes that so many migrants travel in desperation as they flee violence, poverty and lack of opportunity in their home countries.

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