LOS ANGELES — Rafael González speaks nervously, overwhelmed with frustration and unease.
An immigrant from Puerto San Jose on Guatemala’s southern coast, González would like to give an earful to his country’s president, Alejandro Giammattei, about the interminable delays that many Guatemalans have in obtaining passports from their homeland. It’s a problem, he says, that can’t be put off any longer.
“I would like to have the opportunity to speak with the president directly and tell him to his face everything that is happening,” González said while waiting in a long line snaking up to the Guatemalan Consulate on Riverside Drive in Los Angeles, near the intersection of the 2 and 5 freeways.
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