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How Migrants Become Folk Heroes
Intipucá is a small town in south-eastern El Salvador that lies close to a beach popular with surfers. But the reason most outsiders know about this place has nothing to do with tourism. Intipucá is famous for the people who have left for the United States.
Image: A passport that belonged to Sigfredo Chávez. Intipucá celebrates him as its first migrant to take off for the US. Credit: Ruxandra Guidi
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