elizabeth sleeps here and we wonder how many more former residents of the virgen de la asuncion children'sd. 0k, adios. what we have been told is there are quite a lot of kids who are living here on the streets, who also escaped from virgen de la asuncion and, like elizabeth, it is too dangerous for them to go home and this is the only option. there is a very strong smell of glue. it is a cheap, nasty drug and does lasting damage. somebody has got a baby there. she looks very young, the mum. he is too high to make much sense but, like elizabeth, this 17—year—old chose the streets of guatemala city over the virgen de la asuncion. and on the seventh of march last year, the day before the tragic fire, more than 100 boys and girls, also desperate to leave this notorious children's home, planned a mass escape. it was this that provoked the ultimately lethal response of the state. claudia was the guatemalan journalist who published testimony of the survivors of the fire. it was recorded while they were in hospital and described their capture. the recaptured youngsters were held for hours outside