Interview with Maria Hernández, field coordinator of the migrants’ projects in Mexico.
MSF has provided basic medical and mental health care to tens of thousands of people in shelters along Mexico’s various migration routes since 2012. An estimated 500.000 people cross into Mexico every year. The majority making up this massive migration flow originates from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, known as the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA)—one of the most violent regions in the world. Violence and poverty in the NTCA force people to flee their homes. Along the route, migrants in Mexico face abduction, extortion, sexual violence, torture and execution. They are preyed upon by criminal networks, many times with the complicity of the national authorities.