The masked representative of San Sebastián Bachajón, Chiapas, described how residents of this Tzeltal indigenous community reclaimed the entrance to the Aguas Azules waterfalls on Dec. 21, 2014. Although the government once again controls the Aguas Azules tollbooth, the resolve of the movement for local autonomy has not flagged after more than seven years of struggle.
Adrián Rodríguez Garcia and Wilson Castro, who provided food and other aid to migrants in Mexico State were shot to death in their pick-up truck on Nov. 23. A criminal gang for its assaults on migrants in the town of Tequixquiac, north of Mexico City, fired a round of bullets into their truck.
The Mesoamerican Migrant Movement estimates that there are 70,000 to 150,000 disappeared migrants in Mexico. Echoing the cries of “Because they were taken away alive, we want them back alive!” resonating across Mexico with the case of the 43 disappeared students of Ayotzinapa, the mothers chanted in downtown Oaxaca: “Because they came here alive, we want them back alive!”
Emiliano Zapata, Mexico’s iconic revolutionary hero, is buried in Cuautla, Morelos just eight miles from the 620 Mw thermal-electric plant, already constructed in the small town of Huexca. In the same towns where Zapata fought for the rights of Mexico’s rural majority, mega-development projects are setting off fierce protests.
Paola Quiñones, a Honduran migrant, has become an advocate for Central American migrants in Mexico who suffer brutal conditions in their passage through the country. She is part of a group of migrants in Mexico who have taken the struggle for “Free Transit” and dignity for migrants into their own hands, based on lived experience.
True development in El Salvador will mean looking beyond U.S. money and the strings that always come with it.
Sin papeles ni protección, los centroamericanos que emigran atravesando México deben de evadir ser detectados por los oficiales de migración mexicanos que tienen la autoridad de detenerlos y deportarlos, por los policías estatales y federales que comúnmente los extorsionan, y por el crimen organizado a nivel local, nacional y transnacional que también los han hecho un blanco para robos, secuestros y asesinatos. Por ello, no es ninguna sorpresa que la problemática de inmigración de centroamericanos a través de México, sigue siendo invisible para muchos mexicanos. Ellos tienen que ser invisibles para sobrevivir.
What was planned as an 80-mile protest march in southern Mexico became a mass demonstration that traversed Mexico from south to north as hundreds of migrants demanded their rights and raised international awareness.
Cuando el tren carguero “La Bestia” llega a Ixtepec, Oaxaca–-a veces con más de 1,000 migrantes centroamericanos–-Hermanos en el Camino está listo a recibir a las personas migrantes que llegan a sus puertas, entre ellos, están llegando cada día más menores
Increasingly, children are found among the thousands of Central American migrants traversing Mexico in hopes of making it into the United States. Although shelters take them in, current immigration policy and practices are not equipped to protect their rights.
