Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Tending Deep Wounds in Mexico

Tending Deep Wounds in Mexico

Those who make their way through Guatemala and into Mexico do not find any guarantee of safety.

As the number of people fleeing violence and poverty in the Northern Triangle grows, the Mexican government has clamped down on the country’s southern border, with support from the US. Police and military surveillance and law enforcement, coupled with widespread corruption and suspicion of collusion with cartels and maras operating in the southern Mexican states of Oaxaca, Veracruz, and Tabasco, have resulted in an atmosphere of lethal violence and lawlessness.

MSF teams provide primary health care and psychosocial . . .

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