"Part of my trip to
#Guatemala focused on what local communities were doing to improve their local economies and reduce the need for heads of households to emigrate to the United States for higher salaries. Every day in the town of Almolonga, farmers hold one of the most colorful vegetable markets in Guatemala. This
#Mayan town in the western highlands district of Quetzaltenango has surged in prosperity in recent years with high-productivity vegetable farming, exporting much of its excess crops to neighboring El Salvador. Unlike markets in some of the more touristy areas of the country, I was the only foreigner there and people were very open and chatty with me in
#Spanish." - jbmoorephoto | February 11, 2017 |
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Getty Images news photographer John Moore spent the last several weeks in
#Guatemala to photograph the causes behind
#immigration from Central America to the United States. He covered much more on his trip and is taking over gettyimages t...