MEXICO: Migrants – Victims of Crime, Not Criminals - IPS ipsnews.net: "Although Central American migrants continue to face all kinds of abuses and even death on their way north through Mexico to the U.S. border, experts and activists have begun to see a slight change in approach to the issue.
'The changes consist of a new attitude towards Mexico in Central America, which has prompted the Mexican government to react,' Leticia Calderón, a professor at the public 'Doctor José María Luís Mora' Research Institute, told IPS. 'In addition, local authorities are reacting to the new demands.'
Increasing numbers of kidnappings and murders of migrants, mainly from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, as they make their way across Mexico have spurred human rights defenders and academics to step up pressure on the authorities to take measures to guarantee respect for the rights of undocumented migrants and to clamp down on the organised crime groups involved in such activities."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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