This week we released a huge new report about what’s happening at Mexico’s border with Guatemala. It comes with a photo and video feature (slideshow? whatever it is, it’s pictured here) that was great fun to make, though it stretched my HTML and CSS abilities to their limits.
I posted several times to this blog during our field research trip for this report, back in February. As I noted then, Mexico’s southern border zone was seeing a sharp rise in migration from Central America, especially Honduras. We only saw a few, though, of the “unaccompanied minors” now overwhelming U.S. authorities in southern Texas. Most Central American children traveling without family are doing so with paid smugglers, and not passing through the migrant shelters and towns along the train lines. They pass through but spend little time in the Mexico-Guatemala border zone.
Anyway, enjoy and share the report and the slideshow. Here in Washington, I’m now helping to finish our next report, on the troubled department of Chocó in Colombia, which we visited in March.
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