1000 WORDS: Rebuilding

When most of the men in the village of San Miguel Amatitlan in Mexico left to find jobs in other cities or countries, the women in the village took on new roles and new challenges. From Marcela Taboada's work in Focusing on Latin America, "Women of Clay."

1000 WORDS: One Side of the Story

Dona Enerina sits outside her modern home, which is paid for by money her son earns working in the U.S. Part of Dulce Pinzon's series "Both Sides," about Mexican families that migrate for work and those who are left behind, in Focusing on Latin America.