An Amnesty International research reports that about 500.000 people attempt to travel through Central America to reach the United States, due to political, social and economic crisis in their countries of origin. They run away from political repressions, and a homicide rate that exceeds 800% the one of the United States. The true obstacle of this journey is Mexico, charged by the American government to stop the migration of Latin Americans. Before September 2018, among 5.000 and 10.000 migrants died every year. An Amnesty International’s article, "invisible victims migrants on the move in Mexico", reports that approximately 60% of the women who undertook this journey was raped.
These deaths and these abuses are mostly caused by exhausting travel conditions: freight trains that become means of transport used by people and the strong risk of being kidnapped by criminal and non-criminal organizations, have made this journey almost impossible. Between October and November 2018 thousands of people reached out to each other through a social media network and constituted caravans of migrants. The largest one was composed by around 7.000 people and, from San Pedro Sula in Honduras, on 10-13-2018 it travelled through Central America to the USA border, avoiding most of the risks thanks to the protection derived from the attention of the world press and the mass media. The federal Mexican police and the government, who until that moment had prevented the migrants to achieve their intentions, collaborated with them, organizing transport and shelter areas to facilitate their transit through the cities. This phenomenon has not, anyway, revolutionized the way in which Latin American migrants move, the solitary journey remains the most common way of travelling.
