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Around the world, hundreds of thousands of migrants disappear or die while transiting from their ... more Around the world, hundreds of thousands of migrants disappear or die while transiting from their places of origin to destination. In Mexico alone, thousands of migrants die while crossing the desert, or drown in the river that divides the Mexico-USA border, or disappear along the way. The subject of the concrete, correct, and verifiable statistics to estimate the number of Central American migrants in transit in Mexico represents a perverse mirror of the ways in which the movement of people is managed. Depending on the source (non-governmental organizations, houses of refuge and aid to migrants, civil society and political organizations, academic observers, or governmental sources) from 1995 to date the average flow of " events " or attempts to cross the border from Central America to the United States ranges between 200 and 430 thousand annually. While we may not be able to affirm the exact number of migrants who attempt this exodus, how many have been successful, nor how many have disappeared in their journey, we can assert that the numbers are terrifying. The migrants who disappear en route to the north are the invisible among the invisible. Central American populations flee from the violence of the neoliberal market that infringes upon all areas of their daily lives as well as the generalized use of violence committed under the gaze of absent and complicit governments. Nonetheless, public policies, immigration laws, and migration management agreements between the US government and Mexico continue to criminalize migrants fleeing to the United States from the social, political and economic violence that they suffer in their home countries. Violence permeates throughout Central America and Mexico, fueled by the collusion between authorities and organized crime – whether by omission, negligent collusion, protection, complicity and/or acquiescence to rampant corruption and impunity. In any case, the surveillance and control exercised on the southern border of Mexico has led to an all-out hunt for Central American migrants by Mexican authorities. Migrants in transit through Mexico regularly end up in the hands of organized crime who, under the protection of the authorities, have turned migrants into a second source of income via kidnapping, extortion, human trafficking, sex trafficking, organ trafficking, and the use of forced labor for illegal activities. Meanwhile, through deals with " coyotes " and the organized crime group, the Zetas, the Mexican authorities receive generous " compensation " for allowing the flow of human trafficking to continue through highways, airports, seas, and railways. Migrants in transit are treated as disposable bodies. In order to halt their passage, all kinds of containment measures have been adopted including the implementation of plans and programs such as the Southern Border Plan, which has turned Mexico into the most violent country in the world for migrants in transit. Various reports have spoken of more than 20,000 kidnappings of migrants per year, between 72,000 and 120,000 disappeared migrants, and since the intensification of the securitization/externalization of borders, the discovery of 24,000 bodies in unmarked graves in municipal cemeteries, plus an additional 40,000 unidentified bodies in public morgues and an unimaginable number in the clandestine graves that have been found throughout Mexican territory that have not yet been analyzed. Since 2006, Central American mothers have journeyed to Mexico each year, sponsored by the Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano, along with the indispensible collaboration of multiple Mexican and Central American organizations. They are mothers, spouses, sisters, and also fathers that search for their disappeared migrant family members – that
A partir de fines del año 2013, la situación en México -y también en Centroamérica-se deterioró a... more A partir de fines del año 2013, la situación en México -y también en Centroamérica-se deterioró alcanzando niveles de verdadera crisis sistémica que sintetizamos sólo en dos de sus síntomas más evidentes: En Centroamérica, la violencia extrema de la criminalidad combinada con la incapacidad o falta de voluntad de los gobiernos de controlar el acoso a la población que han convertido el fenómeno migratorio en un fenómeno de expulsión forzada, y en México la consolidación de un estado policiaco-militar caracterizado por reprimir ferozmente la protesta social, y desaparecer personas.
ALGUNOS DE LOS PRINCIPALES PROBLEMAS QUE VIVEN LOS MIGRANTES EN TRANSITO POR MEXICO Y SOLICITUDE... more ALGUNOS DE LOS PRINCIPALES PROBLEMAS QUE VIVEN LOS MIGRANTES EN TRANSITO POR MEXICO Y SOLICITUDES DE REMEDIOS PARA LOS MISMOS.
Reasons for the current crisis of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico- Central Am... more Reasons for the current crisis of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico- Central America burning - US responsibility - Mexico´s role in migration control - People´s responses.
Around the world, hundreds of thousands of migrants disappear or die while transiting from their ... more Around the world, hundreds of thousands of migrants disappear or die while transiting from their places of origin to destination. In Mexico alone, thousands of migrants die while crossing the desert, or drown in the river that divides the Mexico-USA border, or disappear along the way. The subject of the concrete, correct, and verifiable statistics to estimate the number of Central American migrants in transit in Mexico represents a perverse mirror of the ways in which the movement of people is managed. Depending on the source (non-governmental organizations, houses of refuge and aid to migrants, civil society and political organizations, academic observers, or governmental sources) from 1995 to date the average flow of " events " or attempts to cross the border from Central America to the United States ranges between 200 and 430 thousand annually. While we may not be able to affirm the exact number of migrants who attempt this exodus, how many have been successful, nor how many have disappeared in their journey, we can assert that the numbers are terrifying. The migrants who disappear en route to the north are the invisible among the invisible. Central American populations flee from the violence of the neoliberal market that infringes upon all areas of their daily lives as well as the generalized use of violence committed under the gaze of absent and complicit governments. Nonetheless, public policies, immigration laws, and migration management agreements between the US government and Mexico continue to criminalize migrants fleeing to the United States from the social, political and economic violence that they suffer in their home countries. Violence permeates throughout Central America and Mexico, fueled by the collusion between authorities and organized crime – whether by omission, negligent collusion, protection, complicity and/or acquiescence to rampant corruption and impunity. In any case, the surveillance and control exercised on the southern border of Mexico has led to an all-out hunt for Central American migrants by Mexican authorities. Migrants in transit through Mexico regularly end up in the hands of organized crime who, under the protection of the authorities, have turned migrants into a second source of income via kidnapping, extortion, human trafficking, sex trafficking, organ trafficking, and the use of forced labor for illegal activities. Meanwhile, through deals with " coyotes " and the organized crime group, the Zetas, the Mexican authorities receive generous " compensation " for allowing the flow of human trafficking to continue through highways, airports, seas, and railways. Migrants in transit are treated as disposable bodies. In order to halt their passage, all kinds of containment measures have been adopted including the implementation of plans and programs such as the Southern Border Plan, which has turned Mexico into the most violent country in the world for migrants in transit. Various reports have spoken of more than 20,000 kidnappings of migrants per year, between 72,000 and 120,000 disappeared migrants, and since the intensification of the securitization/externalization of borders, the discovery of 24,000 bodies in unmarked graves in municipal cemeteries, plus an additional 40,000 unidentified bodies in public morgues and an unimaginable number in the clandestine graves that have been found throughout Mexican territory that have not yet been analyzed. Since 2006, Central American mothers have journeyed to Mexico each year, sponsored by the Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano, along with the indispensible collaboration of multiple Mexican and Central American organizations. They are mothers, spouses, sisters, and also fathers that search for their disappeared migrant family members – that
A partir de fines del año 2013, la situación en México -y también en Centroamérica-se deterioró a... more A partir de fines del año 2013, la situación en México -y también en Centroamérica-se deterioró alcanzando niveles de verdadera crisis sistémica que sintetizamos sólo en dos de sus síntomas más evidentes: En Centroamérica, la violencia extrema de la criminalidad combinada con la incapacidad o falta de voluntad de los gobiernos de controlar el acoso a la población que han convertido el fenómeno migratorio en un fenómeno de expulsión forzada, y en México la consolidación de un estado policiaco-militar caracterizado por reprimir ferozmente la protesta social, y desaparecer personas.
ALGUNOS DE LOS PRINCIPALES PROBLEMAS QUE VIVEN LOS MIGRANTES EN TRANSITO POR MEXICO Y SOLICITUDE... more ALGUNOS DE LOS PRINCIPALES PROBLEMAS QUE VIVEN LOS MIGRANTES EN TRANSITO POR MEXICO Y SOLICITUDES DE REMEDIOS PARA LOS MISMOS.
Reasons for the current crisis of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico- Central Am... more Reasons for the current crisis of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico- Central America burning - US responsibility - Mexico´s role in migration control - People´s responses.