Up to 150,000 people a year attempt the journey north. Thousands go missing, leaving families at home waiting for news – or demands from kidnappers
The Mexican National Guard looks on as migrants take part in a caravan towards the border with the US, Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, on 6 June 2022.In Honduras alone there are 3,500 people listed as missing, according to the five committees in the country that were set up to trace those who have disappeared.
There is no central database of missing people, which “invisibilises the phenomenon”, according to Jérémy Renaux, coordinator for the programme of disappeared people at the International Committee of the Red Cross . Families face obstacles in reporting cases, and then receive no help. , with more than 52,000 unidentified bodies lying in mass graves, forensic service facilities, universities and forensic storage centres.Comité de familiares de migrantes desaparecidos Amor y Fea group of people with missing relatives. Over 23 years she has built a network of activists, journalists and civil society organisations throughout Central America who help search for missing people.
Mothers hold a vigil in Mexico City for their children, who have disappeared while travelling through Mexico trying to reach the US.“People don’t leave the country because they want to. They leave because they have to. We live in a country that expels people through extreme poverty and a lack of opportunities, and violence, among many other factors.”
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