Money transfers to Latin America from the United States peak in May — a Mother’s Day effect.
By Samantha Schmidt Samantha Schmidt Reporter covering gender and family issues Email Bio Follow May 10 at 10:32 AM Every day she spends apart from her mother is painful for Marleni Suncín. But there’s something particularly melancholy about this day, especially this year.
Throughout the afternoon, other Central American sons and daughters poured into the tiny Western Union and other nearby money-transfer businesses to send money to mothers far away. In addition, surveys of thousands of Central American migrants by the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies indicated that the primary recipient of remittances throughout the year is a migrant’s mother.
In Spanish, even the words for the act of giving birth are given more weight: “dar a luz,” or “to bring into the light.” “I am sad because I know she needs me there in person, but if I’m there then she can’t get the money she needs,” said Suncín, who works part time at an elderly-care home. “These are the sacrifices.”
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