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Organizing to protect migrants in México
“Nosotros decidimos entre todos hacer una caminata hasta Palenque.”/“All of us, together, have decided to walk to Palenque.”
Approximately 50 miles separate Tenosique, Tabasco, from Palenque, Chiapas. By the end, the walk that started in Tenosique ended up all the way in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, on the border with the United States.
This is the story of that walk and the people who decided to take it. Without papers or protection, Central Americans migrating through Mexico must evade detection ...
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