A group of Central American women set out to march from Guatemala through Mexico on 2 December to raise the profile of their missing relations.
The women from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras carried photographs of migrants who have disappeared on the way to the Mexican border with the US.
The ninth annual Caravan of Central American Mothers Seeking Missing Migrants arrived at the Casa del Migrante “Il Samaritan”, in the state of Hidalgo, on 4 December.
Bishop Juan Pedro Juarez Melendez of Tula backed the 43 women, and highlighted the dangers faced by migrants in Mexico “who come here with nothing, no clothes or food.”
Marta Sanchez of the Mesoamerican Migrant Movement (MMM), one of the organisers, said as well as finding lost relations and highlighting the dangers faced by migrants, the march would “denounce officials who do little to protect” migrants.
The bishop echoed her call for government protection.
Last year, Mexico's National Human Rights Commission reported that 10,000 migrants had been abducted in the previous six months.
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