Cruzan migrantes el río Suchiate y marchan en Chiapas

Tecún Uman is the last Central American town on the shore of Suchiate river that is the physical border between Guatemala and Mexico. Although the formal customs and migration check point is just few meter away from here, this point of the river is used to cross every kind of products (seeds, fruit, grain, clothes, appliances, toilet paper...) by a makeshift rafts. Those rafts are used also for the people, who lives near the border, Guatemalans as well as Mexicans, and feel the necessity to go in the other country frequently. Migrants, especially centralamerican, have taken advantage of this situation and currently this is also one the areas most used by them to begin the journey toward US. 6 July, 2016 Every month, thousands of children from Central America risk being kidnapped, trafficked, raped, or killed as they make their way to the United States to seek refuge from brutal gangs and stifling poverty, and there is no sign this trend is letting up. These vulnerable children, many of whom are travelling without an adult, need protection every step of the way: in their home countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras – which have some of the world’s highest murder rates – as they cross Mexico, and when they arrive in the United States, said UNICEF in the report ‘Broken Dreams – Central American children’s dangerous journey to the United States’.