Danger crossing

Family members carry the body of Widman, who drowned four months earlier trying to cross into the US, from the family's home to their church in Yepocapa, Guatemala, on June 19. CHENEY ORR/REUTERS The journey of Rossanna and Widman, their full names not given, began in the Guatemalan village of San Juan La Laguna, on the shores of turquoise Lake Atitlan, where they met when he bought the tortillas she was selling for lunch. The couple drowned as they tried to wade across the notorious part of the river that links Piedras Negras, Mexico, with Eagle Pass, Texas, on Feb 24, just two among the hundreds of people who lose their lives trying to cross into the United States every year. In June, relatives collected Widman's casket from Guatemala City and carried it back along the winding highland roads to his hometown of Yepocapa in a white van toward his final resting place.