Mexico: Twelfth Caravan of Mothers sets out on search for missing children

Fifty mothers of disappeared young migrants began their twelfth Caravan on 15 November, from La Mesilla, Ciudad Cuahutemoc, a city in the centre of the Mexican state of Chihuahua, the gateway to the Sierra Tarahumara region. From here the Caravan will travel through 11 states and 30 cities.

This year the initiative has chosen the slogan 'Buscamos vida en caminos de muerte' and is in memory of Berta Caceres, the Honduran environmentalist who was murdered on 3 March.

The Carovan will end on 3 December in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, where a ceremony will take place along the river, in Tapa Chula. The Caravan will travel through various cities: Comitan, San Cristobal, Villahermosa, Cordoba-Veracruz, San Luis Potosi, Mexico City and Puebla.

Another part of the caravan started on 10 November and has already covered a few countries in Central America, including Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua, but the journey in Mexico is the main one, because at the border, migrants are targeted by traffickers, criminal networks and 'coyotes' groups.

The purpose of the Caravan is to attract the attention of national and international media and to give voices to the mothers of these stolen children.

The journey of the Caravan this year can be followed on their website here: https://movimientomigrantemesoamericano.org/ and on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/MovimientoMigranteMesoamericano/?fref=ts

Source: Fides