“I Gave Her Alive to the State”: the Odyssey of Vianney Hernández, the Mother Who Sought Justice in Guatemala and Ended up Fleeing to the United States

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The body of Vianney Hernández Mejía is a map. On her skin are tattoos and scars that record the places, the names and the tragedies that have passed through her. Her story, that of a woman born in 1972 in a town in northern El Salvador, who formed a family in Guatemala, fled to Mexico to protect herself and today resists in the United States, has points that hurt as soon as they are pronounced: domestic violence, civil war, child abuse, forced m…