“We don’t need coyotes, we better cross alone,” say migrants from Chiapas

Palenque. Not even Covid-19 nor did the closure of non-essential traffic at the southern border due to the pandemic stop flow migratory from Central America to Mexico, a transit country for those fleeing violence in their land.

Migration from Guatemala, Savior and Honduras changed as the caravans became small groups, many of them family members.

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In Palenque, Chiapas, on the border line between El Ceibo and Tenosique, Tabasco, migrants now use the jungle roads. There are no defined routes: he risks his life, but away from traffickers and federal authorities.

Others say they long for the passage Beast of Pakal-na, which slowed down because Mayan trends. Finally, there are those who remained in Mexico and today weave a new life in the southeast of the country.

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Activists warned of the arrival of families with children; many get sick on the road.
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Elder, originally from Honduras, traveled 24 days to reach Palenque from his home country.
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Rosa came to Mexico 12 years ago and Pakal-na is her new home. Here many migrants got married and are merchants. In Mexico they took refuge.
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The house of the Jtactic refuge, in Palenque, Chiapas, has become an oasis for migrants.
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