In 2019, 15 Guatemalans traveled abroad through a government labor mobility program most people had never heard of. By this July, that number had passed 1,800 — for this single program alone, in a single year. While attention stays fixed on migration routes shutting down, Guatemala has quietly been building something in the opposite direction: a state-run pipeline sending its own citizens abroad to work, legally, and bringing nearly all of them back. From 15 Workers to Nearly