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The vultures extend their majestic wings and jump from hill to hill. Even they have a price in Linda Vista, where not only they dig to take advantage from the plastic, metal and paper; here everything is for sale, and even the sorcerers come for the vultures. Linda Vista, it s the name of the colony of Tapachula, where for over 25 years the municipal dump, has been home of vultures, garbage and 97 Guatemalan families, most of them still without documents for any of their members. Pepeneadores is de common term in Mexico for these workers that dig in the waste of other to find something of value, something they can sell to someone and re-use it. But this group of Guatemalan pepeneadores today, according to some of them, are unable to sell to anyone they want. They have a single buyer or several prestanombres (name-lenders), and thus the price is set by this monopoly buyer. Constantly threatened by the imposing figure of the migration police, the pepenadores of Linda Vista work around 11 hours every day to earn about 5 dollars. The Linda Vista pepenadores are Guatemalan, illegal and undocumented. They have been threatened by city officials and reminded that they are uninvited in their country. The pepenadores are organizing despites the fear. The pepenadores came to stay.