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    Central America fears Trump could deport coronavirus

    by Molly O'Toole, Los Angeles Times Mar 29, 2020 6 minutes

    GUATEMALA CITY - Marcelo Ibate waited outside the big black door, eating tortillas out of a sweating plastic bag. A line of camouflaged soldiers stood beyond with large weapons and face masks.

    Ibate didn't know which day his son Eduardo would arrive or whether he'd be carrying coronavirus with him on the deportation flight from the United States, now the epicenter of the global pandemic.

    "Of course I am afraid for my son, but I think he is OK," Ibate said in Spanish as he waited outside the Air Force base where returnees are processed, attached to the commercial airport in Guatemala City. "If he's sick, there's not much we can do - we can only wait and care for him. I'm his father; I am responsible for him. I have to."

    After barring foreign travelers and closing its borders and businesses to try to contain the spread of coronavirus, Guatemala earlier this month became the first nation to

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