Migrants in Mexico: Invisible journeys

Headline Title: Migrants in Mexico: Invisible journeys 15 October 2013 Thousands of people from Central America make their way across Mexico every year, hoping to escape grinding poverty and insecurity back home and make better lives for themselves and their families in the USA. Many of them travel on foot or on the top of freight trains. Their journey is full of dangers. Kidnapping is a constant fear. Thousands of women, men and children are abducted every year. Victims whose desperate relatives cannot raise the ransom face torture or death. Rape is widespread. It is believed that…

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