Guadalajara, April 21, 2020 – just over a month ago, on March 18, 2020, the United States government decided to close its borders with Canada and Mexico to “non-essential crossings,” in order to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. The Guatemalan government, on the same date, declared the “state of public calamity”: it decreed the closure of borders and restricted the mobility of people as a measure to prevent the spread of the pandemic. One