Mariana Hernandez
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- Sep 3, 2026
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Mariana Hernandez Too Young To Be Sick Like This Mariana Hernandez Chronic kidney disease was long thought to be an old person’s malady. Now it’s a multinational health crisis among young Latino migrants who once worked on Central American farms and sugar plantations and now hold jobs in Texas and other parts of the United States. To avoid expensive treatment in the United States, many return home, only to discover limited care for the deadly illness.
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By the time Evelyn Morales learned that her brother, Alberto, had been diagnosed with kidney failure in the United States, she knew the disease well. One of her sisters had died of the same condition four years earlier. Alberto worked on construction crews and painted houses across the U.S. for more than a decade. But one day, the 37-year-old’s body gave out. Struck by fever and pain, he could no longer work. “My mother told him to come back to El Salvador,” Evelyn said in an interview in her ho
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Editorâs Note: Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. It is a collaboration between the Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual, nonprofit newsroom and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border, and Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative newsroom based in Texas. By the time Evelyn Morales learned that her brother, Alberto, had been diagnosed with kidney failure in the United States, she knew
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