A Look At the Mexico-Guatemala Border Zone

CREDITS

This presentation accompanies Mexico’s Other Border: Security, Migration, and the Humanitarian Crisis at the Line with Central America, a report that WOLA released on June 17, 2014. (We will add a link on June 17.)

We took hundreds of photos during our field research. Inspired in part by National Public Radio’s excellent Borderland series and presentation, we developed this resource as a way to share them.

We hope that you enjoy and learn from it. You may use all photos for non-commercial purposes at no cost. Just please give credit to WOLA.

We are most grateful to Gabriela Morales Gracia, a migration expert who was our Mexico-based consultant on this project and co-author of Mexico’s Other Border.

None of this would have been possible without support from many more people and organizations. Please visit their websites and support their essential work.

Fray Tomás González and the staff of the “La 72” Refuge Home for Migrant People in Tenosique.
Carlos Bartolo Solís and the staff of the “Home of Mercy” migrant shelter in Arriaga.
Gloria Murúa of the Jesuit Migrant Service office in Comitán.
Martha Rojas of the Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) in San Cristóbal de las Casas.

Martha García of ECOSUR in Chetumal.
Enrique Coraza of ECOSUR in Tapachula.
Ailsa Margaret Anne Winton of ECOSUR in Tapachula.
Daniel Villefuerte Solís of CESMECA.
Miguel Ángel Paz of Voces Mesoamericanas.
Claudia Cruz of the Jesuit Migrant Service.
Ana María Lozano and Roberto Montoya of Colectivo ANSUR.
Michael W. Chamberlin, Chiapas-based human rights defender.
Ana Elena Barrios of Enlace Comunicación A.C.
Jorge Andrade of the “Ustedes Somos Nosotros” collective.
Antonio Luigi Mazzitelli of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
Ana Silvia Alonso of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Tapachula.
Gen. (R) José Francisco Gallardo Rodríguez, Mexican Senate Committee on Human Rights.
Michael Evans of the National Security Archive.
José Knippen of FUNDAR.
Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Matías de Córdova, Tapachula.
Centro de Derechos Humanos Digna Ochoa, Tonalá.
Casa del Migrante “El Caminante,” Palenque.
Oralia Morales Human Rights Committee, Frontera Comalapa.
Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartólome de las Casas, San Cristóbal de las Casas.
Centro de Derechos de la Mujer en Chiapas, San Cristóbal de las Casas.

WOLA offers particular thanks to the staff of the Ford Foundation’s Mexico and Central America office for their financial support and excellent advice.