@Isaac Guzman
On April 23rd, approximately 4,000 migrants from Central and South America and other countries left Tapachula, Chiapas, on a Via Crucis towards Mexico City, to denounce “highlight the ordeal of migrants in Mexico.”
Irineo Mujica, from Peoples without Borders, expressed that among the demands of the Via Crucis is that the National Migration Institute (INM) be demilitarized and that all the Institute’s commanders be suspended, disabled and prosecuted in all the states of the country where it has presence; to ensure that those responsible in the case of the violent death of 40 migrants in a migration station in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, in March are tried as well as the INM commissioner, Francisco Garduño; and that the “immigration prisons” be closed, mainly the one in Tapachula, because “Tapachula, is hell and a huge prison full of corruption.”
The Via Crucis will be accompanied by observers from the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) that requested the deployment of precautionary measures to the federal government, the government of Chiapas and the states and municipalities through which it passes. These are actions that they consider “necessary to guarantee urgent humanitarian care to safeguard the physical and emotional integrity of the 4,000 people who, it is estimated, will make up said caravan.”
For more inormation in Spanish:
‘Viacrucis migrante’ avanza por Chiapas sin diálogo con el Gobierno (Aristegui Noticias, 25 de abril de 2023)
Cuatro mil salen de Tapachula en décima edición del Vía crucis migrante (Pie de Página, 24 de abril de 2023)
Avanza «viacrucis» migrante hacia la CDMX (La Jornada, 24 de abril de 2023)
Se unen a Viacrucis Migrante cerca de 3 mil personas (El Universal, 24 de abril de 2023)
Cuatro mil salen de Tapachula en décima edición del Viacrucis migrante; CNDH pide medidas cautelares (Chiapas Paralelo, 23 de abril de 2023)
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