Second Lives
Short story, set in an unnamed South American country, about a boy whose older brother goes to live in the United States.
Daniel Alarcón's parents would have had another child—they would have had him—if their visas hadn't run out. A coup back home; papers denied; appeals only from the home country. Rather than be deported—how undignified!—they left of their own accord. No blue passport for the narrator. He was born seven years later.