Deadly Travel for Migrants Going Through Mexico

Migrants run Mexican gauntlet to make leap of faith to US

London Guardian

Massacre in Tamaulipas by Zetas drugs cartel fails to stem tide of Central Americans risking el brinco – the jump across Mexico

• Rory Carroll in Flores and Jo Tuckman in Mexico City
• guardian.co.uk, Sunday 19 June 2011 18.49 BST

"About 300,000 migrants pass through Mexico each year, the vast majority Central Americans, but keeping track of them is impossible, said Flora Reynosa, head of a state office in Guatemala City tasked with defending migrants' human rights. Kidnapping had become a plague, she said.

Families trek to Reynosa's little office to supply names of missing relatives. That morning a father had registered the disappearance of a son who left in February, with no word since."...more