\u201cDark Passage\u201d is a project about the long and difficult odyssey that thousands of migrants face everyday along the way to reach the Northern-Mexican border to cross and finally arrive in the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is a metaphor that illustrates this experience and has Mexico as the main subject of attention. Its unique geographical location has made a long passage of this country, which migrants around the world use to reach the ideal of enhancing their living conditions in the United States. This vast territory is turning into a \u201cdark passage\u201d, because in the last decade a number of factors have increased the difficulties along the way, making them more vulnerable to extortion, violence, kidnapping, and theft. Each year, more than 400.000 Central-American migrants cross the southern-Mexican border on their way to the United States. The precarious economic situation, in which millions of people live in Central American countries like Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, stimulates the flux of people towards the United States, and it seems unstoppable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each day, hundreds of Central Americans leave their countries of origin, their families, their only goods, and start a journey that it\u2019s supposed to end in the USA, where they would find economic opportunities that would bring benefit to themselves and their whole families. But along this journey towards the North, it ever more turns into a nightmare. Their condition of \u201cinvisibility\u201d, of \u201cclandestinely\u201d, increases the vulnerability of the women, men and children that experience this dark passage, and makes them an easy prey for the Mexican organized crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This project is concentrated in the population that use the freight train called \u201cLa Bestia\u201d (the beast), to get to the Northern parts of Mexico, which is the majority of migrants. They travel during the day on the marching trains that cross the country from South to North, facing dangers from falling down the trains, to getting kidnapped. In the shortstops, useful for changing trains, or in the wait for someone who could take her\/him further north, they find food at shelters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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