MIGRANTS

Solidarity work in cooperation with the SJM (Jesuit Migrant Service of Mexico City) that shows the problems faced by migrants who cross Mexico by train with the aim of reaching the USA.

I carried out this work together with several Mexican photographers and it became a collective exhibition promoted by ENTRECULTURAS in several countries around the world.

This group suffers all kinds of abuse and the vast majority do not achieve their dream of finding work in the USA.

The kidnapping of Central American migrants crossing Mexico—many of them on the train known as La Bestia—is a serious and persistent phenomenon that has been documented since the early 2000s. These migrants, mostly from Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, travel north in the hope of reaching the United States, but along the way they are vulnerable to abuse, extortion, and kidnapping by criminal groups and, in some cases, corrupt authorities.

In many cases, victims suffer physical violence, sexual abuse, and disappearances. The most dangerous states are usually Veracruz, Tamaulipas, and Tabasco, areas historically controlled by cartels such as Los Zetas or the Gulf Cartel.