From Southern to Northern Mexico: Crossing the Country to Seek Protection at the Border
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
TIJUANA – Violence from organized crime is no longer just displacing communities from their homes; it is pushing them all the way to the northern border of Mexico, where they seek protection after suffering threats, homicides, armed attacks, and land dispossession by criminal groups in their communities. This is the case for two families of Nahuatl origin who fled the indigenous community of Teticic in the High Mountain region of Guerrero, as they claim they lived in fear after witnessing the murder of some of their loved ones. A total of thirteen people were first transported to Mexico City and then to Tijuana on a Mexican Army plane, after authorities deemed that traveling by road posed a risk to their safety. Their arrival reflects an increasingly visible dimension of forced internal displacement in Mexico: people leaving their communities to save their lives and ending up traveling more than 2,000 kilometers to border cities where they seek protection and even consider applying for asylum in the United States. 'We are very scared. They are looking for us,' recounted one of the displaced women, who requested to remain anonymous and stated that the threats began after the murder of several family members.
AI summary · Source: Telemundo McAllen (KTLM) →
