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  • Free trade agreements have been resisted by many activists in the Third World. Here a group of protestors speaks out against the Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) during a 2003 demonstration in Tegucigalpa.
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  • As the water table level continues to drop, many wells in southern Honduras have dried out, like this one in El Burillo, Valle. Communities have deepened their hand-dug wells up to three times, others have drilled deeper wells, up to 60m deep, with special rigs, but the drought has already lasted seven years in this dry corridor of Central America and is predicted to continue due to climate change. Here villagers help deepen a well.
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  • As the water table level continues to drop, many wells have dried out, like this one in El Burillo, Valle, Honduras. Communities have deepened their hand-dug wells up to three times, others have drilled deeper wells, up to 60m deep, with special rigs, but the drought has already lasted seven years in this dry corridor of Central America and is predicted to continue due to climate change..
    Honduras_Hawkey_World_Renew_drought_...jpg
  • Petronila Escalante prepares tortillas in her family's home in El Bonete, a small village in northwestern Nicaragua. Usually made of corn, the tortilla is a staple in diets throughout Central America and Mexico..
    nicaragua-2009-jeffrey-63.jpg
  • Petronila Escalante prepares tortillas in her family's home in El Bonete, a small village in northwestern Nicaragua. Usually made of corn, the tortilla is a staple in diets throughout Central America and Mexico..
    nicaragua-2009-jeffrey-60.jpg
  • Petronila Escalante prepares tortillas in her family's home in El Bonete, a small village in northwestern Nicaragua. Usually made of corn, the tortilla is a staple in diets throughout Central America and Mexico..
    nicaragua-2009-jeffrey-55.jpg
  • A CACAONICA workshop in collaboration with the Central America Cocoa Programme for young people near Waslala. Technical staff from the coop work in 28 communities with 184 producers of organic cocoa and 500 families. Cooperativa de Servicios Agroforestal y Comercialización de Cacao, CACAONICA, is located in Waslala, Nicaragua and is Fairtrade-certified.
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  • A CACAONICA workshop in collaboration with the Central America Cocoa Programme for young people near Waslala. Technical staff from the coop work in 28 communities with 184 producers of organic cocoa and 500 families. Cooperativa de Servicios Agroforestal y Comercialización de Cacao, CACAONICA, is located in Waslala, Nicaragua and is Fairtrade-certified.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CACAONICA_20111026_...jpg
  • Workers carry sacks of dry parchment coffee in front of the COCAOL cupping laboratory named after Kieran Durnien, manager of the fairtrade labelling organisations in Central America. COCAOL, Cooperativa Cafetalera Olancho Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Santa Maria del Real, Olancho, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COCAOL_20120223_048.jpg
  • A statue of General Francisco Morazán, once leader of Honduras and Central America.
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  • Petronila Escalante prepares tortillas in her family's home in El Bonete, a small village in northwestern Nicaragua. Usually made of corn, the tortilla is a staple in diets throughout Central America and Mexico..
    nicaragua-2009-jeffrey-62.jpg
  • Petronila Escalante prepares tortillas in her family's home in El Bonete, a small village in northwestern Nicaragua. Usually made of corn, the tortilla is a staple in diets throughout Central America and Mexico..
    nicaragua-2009-jeffrey-61.jpg
  • Petronila Escalante prepares tortillas in her family's home in El Bonete, a small village in northwestern Nicaragua. Usually made of corn, the tortilla is a staple in diets throughout Central America and Mexico..
    nicaragua-2009-jeffrey-57.jpg
  • Leaf rust dries out leaves, defoliating the coffee plant and destroying the productive capacity of farms across the Central American region. Leaf rust has proliferated in the hotter and more humid atmosphere brought by climate change.
    El _Salvador_Hawkey_drought_20140801...jpg
  • A family recovers a bed from their house. They spent three days on the roof of the house waiting to be rescued.<br />
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Hurricane Eta hit hard across northern, central and western Honduras. Before the local population has been able to begin recovery hurricane the population braced for hurricane Iota. Many low-lying areas were evacuated in preparation.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Eta_Iota_313.jpg
  • Maria de Jesus Silva Velasquez holds photos of disappeared family members during a December 16, 2013 demonstration in the southern Mexico city of Tapachula.<br />
A Nicaraguan, Silva was part of a caravan of 45 people from Central America who spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. <br />
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Silva holds photos of her daughter Jacqueline Silva Giron, who was kidnapped by traffickers in 2004 at the age of 11. Silva has identified the woman responsible for the abduction, but has been unable to locate her daughter for nine years. The second photo she holds is of her nephew Humberto Mayorga Silva, who left in 2007 when he went to search for Silva's daughter. He last called in 2011 but hasn't been heard from since.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-A126.JPG
  • Volunteer youth from the United States help build housing for the poor in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. They came to Central America under the auspices of the Sierra Service Project.
    honduras-2003-jeffrey-13.jpg
  • Carmen Lucia Cuaresma, a Nicaraguan woman, holds a photo of her son Alvaro Enrique Guadamuz during a December 18, 2013 demonstration on the banks of the Suchiate River where it forms the border between Guatemala and Mexico. The woman crossed the river from Mexico to join in a demonstration in Tecun Uman, Guatemala.<br />
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Cuaresma came to the area as part of a caravan of 45 people from Central America who spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. In addition to searching for clues to the fate of their loved ones, they called on the Mexican government to improve its treatment of migrants transiting the country.<br />
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Cuaresma last heard from her son in 2011 when he called her from Mexico.
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  • Maria de Jesus Silva Velasquez (left) and other women hold photos of their disappeared family members during a December 18, 2013 demonstration on the banks of the Suchiate River that forms much of the border between Guatemala and Mexico. The women crossed the river from Mexico to hold their demonstration in Tecun Uman, Guatemala.<br />
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These women, all from Nicaragua, were part of a caravan of 45 people from Central America who spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. In addition to searching for clues to the fate of their loved ones, they called on the Mexican government to improve its treatment of migrants transiting the country.<br />
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Silva holds photos of her daughter Jacqueline Silva Giron, who was kidnapped by traffickers in 2004 at the age of 11. Silva has identified the woman responsible for her daughter's kidnapping, but has been unable to locate her daughter for nine years. The second photo she holds is of her nephew Humberto Mayorga Silva, who left in 2007 when he went to search for Silva's daughter. He last called in 2011 but hasn't been heard from since.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-C476.JPG
  • Women from Nicaragua hold photos of their disappeared family members during a December18, 2013 demonstration in the middle of the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. <br />
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The women were part of a caravan of 45 people from Central America who spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. In addition to searching for clues to the fate of their loved ones, they called on the Mexican government to improve its treatment of migrants transiting the country.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-C468.JPG
  • Women hold photos of their disappeared family members during a December18, 2013 demonstration in the middle of the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. <br />
<br />
The women were part of a caravan of 45 people from Central America who spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. In addition to searching for clues to the fate of their loved ones, they called on the Mexican government to improve its treatment of migrants transiting the country.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-C417.JPG
  • Maria de Jesus Silva Velasquez holds photos of two disappeared family members as she speaks at a December 16, 2013 demonstration for migrants' rights in the southern Mexico city of Tapachula. A Nicaraguan, Silva was part of a caravan of 45 people from Central America who spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. At her side is Iris Yaconda, a psychologist with Jesuit Refugee Service who provided emotional support to members of the caravan.<br />
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Silva holds photos of her daughter Jacqueline Silva Giron, who was kidnapped by traffickers in 2004 at the age of 11. Silva has identified the woman responsible for the abduction, but has been unable to locate her daughter for nine years. The second photo she holds is of her nephew Humberto Mayorga Silva, who left in 2007 when he went to search for Silva's daughter. He last called in 2011 but hasn't been heard from since.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-A088.JPG
  • Maria de Jesus Silva Velasquez (right) holds two photos of disappeared family members during a December 16, 2013 demonstration in the southern Mexico city of Tapachula. A Nicaraguan, Silva was part of a caravan of 45 people from Central America who spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. <br />
<br />
Silva holds photos of her daughter Jacqueline Silva Giron, who was kidnapped by traffickers in 2004 at the age of 11. Silva has identified the woman responsible for the abduction, but has been unable to locate her daughter for nine years. The second photo she holds is of her nephew Humberto Mayorga Silva, who left in 2007 when he went to search for Silva's daughter. He last called in 2011 but hasn't been heard from since.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-A030.JPG
  • Maria de Jesus Silva Velasquez holds photos of disappeared family members during a December 16, 2013 demonstration in the southern Mexico city of Tapachula.<br />
<br />
A Nicaraguan, Silva was part of a caravan of 45 people from Central America who spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. <br />
<br />
Silva holds photos of her daughter Jacqueline Silva Giron, who was kidnapped by traffickers in 2004 at the age of 11. Silva has identified the woman responsible for the abduction, but has been unable to locate her daughter for nine years. The second photo she holds is of her nephew Humberto Mayorga Silva, who left in 2007 when he went to search for Silva's daughter. He last called in 2011 but hasn't been heard from since.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-A036.JPG
  • Henri Aguilar with his one-year old daughter Genesis in the yard of their home in Chamelecon, a poor neighborhood of San Pedro Sula, Honduras. This photo was captured May 2, 2007. On May 7, 2007, Aquilar was assassinated in his home by three masked men. A former member of the Mara Salvatrucha, a notorious street gang, Aguilar had left gang life behind, was married, working full time, and heavily involved in the local Catholic parish. Gangs have grown in recent years in Central America, and many young men get involved because they have few other options in the war-torn region. Once in a gang, however, it's very difficult to leave.
    honduras-2007-jeffrey-07.jpg
  • Volunteer youth from the United States help build housing for the poor in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. They came to Central America under the auspices of the Sierra Service Project.
    honduras-2003-jeffrey-11.jpg
  • Volunteer youth from the United States help build housing for the poor in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. They came to Central America under the auspices of the Sierra Service Project.
    honduras-2003-jeffrey-12.jpg
  • Volunteer youth from the United States help build housing for the poor in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. They came to Central America under the auspices of the Sierra Service Project.
    honduras-2003-jeffrey-10.jpg
  • As members of the press document the encounter, members of a caravan of Central Americans looking for their disappeared loved ones questions people in Puerto Madero, Mexico, on December 17, 2013, about whether they've seen particular migrants who went missing on their journey north. <br />
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The caravan, containing 45 Central Americans, most of them mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days in Mexico, finding 12 of the people they were looking for and clues about the fate of several others.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-B294.JPG
  • Photos laid out on the ground in Puerto Madero, Mexico, on December 17, 2013 by dozens of Central Americans looking for their loved ones who disappeared on the migrant trail north. The Central Americans, mostly mothers looking for their disappeared or trafficked children, came to Mexico for 17 days.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-B230.JPG
  • Maryknoll Father Thomas Goekler (center, blue shirt and coffee cup in hand), a US priest, walks through the streets of Chamelecón, Honduras, with young men who he is keeping out of violent gangs. Goekler runs several programs that promote education and work as alternatives to the gangs.
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  • Maryknoll Father Thomas Goekler (center, blue shirt and coffee cup in hand), a US priest, walks through the streets of Chamelecón, Honduras, with young men who he is keeping out of violent gangs. Goekler runs several programs that promote education and work as alternatives to the gangs.
    honduras-2007-jeffrey-09.jpg
  • The Project to Recover the Historical Archives of the National Police of Guatemala, where workers are sorting through and cataloging 80 million pages of records that detail the Central American country's history of repression and violence.
    guatemala-2007-jeffrey-memory-02.jpg
  • A Guatemalan man rides his horse near an oil pipeline that crosses the large section of the north of the Central American country.
    guatemala-2009-jeffrey-ixcan-69.jpg
  • Organic compost is produced for the Central de Cooperativas 'Las Diosas' - the Godesses - for their Fairtrade coffee production.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Las Diosas_20140812...jpg
  • Cristian Gusmán Merlos, young coffee farmer, manager of Fundación Entre Mujeres, community organiser, farming and Fairtrade coffee advisor. Cristian works with the Central De Cooperativas 'Las Diosas' - the Godesses - that has 270 women farmer members.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Las Diosas_20140811...jpg
  • Cristian Gusmán Merlos, young coffee farmer, manager of Fundación Entre Mujeres, community organiser, farming and Fairtrade coffee advisor. Cristian works with the Central De Cooperativas 'Las Diosas' - the Godesses - that has 270 women farmer members.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Las Diosas_20140811...jpg
  • A Fairtrade coffee nursery run by Central de Cooperativas in Pueblo Nuevo, Nicaragua. Varieties of coffee that are resistant to drought and leaf-rust are being promoted, though farmers are resistent to plant them if they don't taste as good as the more fragile varieties.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Las Diosas_20140811...jpg
  • A Fairtrade coffee nursery run by Central de Cooperativas in Pueblo Nuevo, Nicaragua. Varieties of coffee that are resistant to drought and leaf-rust are being promoted, though farmers are resistent to plant them if they don't taste as good as the more fragile varieties.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Las Diosas_20140811...jpg
  • CECOSEMAC Coop member Adrian Mairena leaves home to pick coffee on his farm. El Mango, Matagalpa. Central de Cooperativas de Servicios Múltiples “Aromas del Café”, CECOSEMAC, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee-producing coop based in Matagalpa and Jinotega, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CECOSEMAC_20111021_...jpg
  • Samandy Díaz Dávila, picking cocoa on her family farm. Her grandmother is a member of CECOSEMAC Coop. Central de Cooperativas de Servicios Múltiples “Aromas del Café”, CECOSEMAC, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee-producing coop based in Matagalpa and Jinotega, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CECOSEMAC_20111020_...jpg
  • Adelayda García Flores toasting coffee in her kitchen. Her father is a member of the CECOSEMAC coop. Central de Cooperativas de Servicios Múltiples “Aromas del Café”, CECOSEMAC, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee-producing coop based in Matagalpa and Jinotega, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CECOSEMAC_20111020_...jpg
  • Teyling Maria Membreño picks cocoa on her family's farm. Teyling's father is a member of the CECOSEMAC coop. Central de Cooperativas de Servicios Múltiples “Aromas del Café”, CECOSEMAC, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee-producing coop based in Matagalpa and Jinotega, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CECOSEMAC_20111020_...jpg
  • The Central American Highway, CA1, was blockaded at El Marillal near Choluteca for days during protests. Protestors lay rocks and concrete along the road and set fires on the bridge to stop any vehicles passing.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171219_5...jpg
  • The Central American Highway, CA1, was blockaded at El Marillal near Choluteca for days during protests. Protestors lay rocks and concrete along the road and set fires on the bridge to stop any vehicles passing.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171218_4...jpg
  • The Central American Highway, CA1, was blockaded at El Marillal near Choluteca for days during protests. Protestors lay rocks and concrete along the road and set fires on the bridge to stop any vehicles passing.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171218_4...jpg
  • The Central American Highway, CA1, was blockaded at El Marillal near Choluteca for days during protests. Protestors lay rocks and concrete along the road and set fires on the bridge to stop any vehicles passing.
    Honduras_Hawkey_elections_20171218_4...jpg
  • Soldiers run through central Tegucigalpa, ready to shoot teargas at protestors. Disturbances in the centre of Tegucigalpa. Protestors against President Juan Orlando Hernández were met by thousands of Police, Navy, Army and Military Police.
    honduras_hawkey_20180128_312.jpg
  • At the lagoon of Alegría, Usulután, El Salvador, water levels have dropped dramatically in the drought that is affecting the region. Here, the water has receded hundreds of metres, a man carries a 'cantaro' of water across the dry lagoon bed. The effect of climate changes in the central american region are already extreme.
    El _Salvador_Hawkey_drought_20140801...jpg
  • At the lagoon of Alegría, Usulután, El Salvador, water levels have dropped dramatically in the drought that is affecting the region. Here, the water has receded hundreds of metres, a man walks across the dry lagoon bed. The effect of climate changes in the central american region are already extreme.
    El _Salvador_Hawkey_drought_20140801...jpg
  • At the lagoon of Alegría, Usulután, El Salvador, water levels have dropped dramatically in the drought that is affecting the region. Here, the water has receded hundreds of metres. The effect of climate changes in the central american region are already extreme.
    El _Salvador_Hawkey_drought_20140801...jpg
  • The Project to Recover the Historical Archives of the National Police of Guatemala, where workers are sorting through and cataloging 80 million pages of records that detail the Central American country's history of repression and violence.
    guatemala-2007-jeffrey-memory-07.jpg
  • A Guatemalan boy lives beside an oil pipeline that crosses the large section of the north of the Central American country.
    guatemala-2009-jeffrey-ixcan-68.jpg
  • A Guatemalan boy walks along an oil pipeline that crosses the large section of the north of the Central American country.
    guatemala-2009-jeffrey-ixcan-67.jpg
  • A CECOSEMAC Coop member shows worms from his organic composter. Central de Cooperativas de Servicios Múltiples “Aromas del Café”, CECOSEMAC, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee-producing coop based in Matagalpa and Jinotega, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CECOSEMAC_20111021_...jpg
  • Fausto Ramon Gaytan Garcia, technician of the Central American Cocoa Programme with CACAONICA, explains grafting of cocoa in an experimental cocoa plot in Waslala. Cooperativa de Servicios Agroforestal y Comercialización de Cacao, CACAONICA, is located in Waslala, Nicaragua and is Fairtrade-certified.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CACAONICA_20111027_...jpg
  • At the lagoon of Alegría, Usulután, El Salvador, water levels have dropped dramatically in the drought that is affecting the region. Here, the water has receded hundreds of metres, a man carries a 'cantaro' of water across the dry lagoon bed. The effect of climate changes in the central american region are already extreme.
    El _Salvador_Hawkey_drought_20140801...jpg
  • Lidia Diego holds a photo of her daughter Nora Morales Diego during a vigil in Tapachula, Mexico, on December 17, 2013. The Guatemalan woman was part of a group of Central Americans who came to Mexico in search of family members who disappeared there, many while on their way north to the United States. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones.
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  • At a December 16, 2013 demonstration in the center of Tapachula, Mexico, several dozen Central Americans hold photos of family members who disappeared in Mexico. Other photos were laid out on the ground. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north or were abducted by human traffickers.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-A081.JPG
  • A group of Central Americans searching for family members who disappeared in Mexico walks through the center of Tapachula, Mexico, on December 16, 2013. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. These women carry a flag from their native Nicaragua.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-A023.JPG
  • Members of Guatemala's elite Kaibiles--a repressive army's most feared soldiers--during a ceremony at their base in the remote north of the Central American country.
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  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, members of the community meet for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. Here a group is setting up a new plot with drip-fed irrigation. The project is supported by the Evangelic Lutheran Church of America and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering. A successful crop of corn is being grown in the background.
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  • A man prepares his rooster for a cockfight in a rural village outside Chinandega, Nicaragua.  Cockfighting is a popular, albeit bloody, sport throughout the Central American country.
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  • A cockfight in a rural village outside Chinandega, Nicaragua.  Cockfighting is a popular, albeit bloody, sport throughout the Central American country.
    nicaragua-2009-jeffrey-cockfight-2.jpg
  • On the streets of their nation's capital of San Salvador, residents of the small Central American nation of El Salvador remember Oscar Romero, the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador who was murdered in 1980 by a government-sanctioned death squad. That remembrance takes a variety of forms, including shirts with his image which are here sold in a public park. The image of Romero, a conservative prelate who slowly took the side of the poor despite repeated threats from the U.S.-backed military, has grown more ubiqitious here than even that legendary shot of Ernesto "Che" Guevarra's face.
    el-salvador-2005-jeffrey-09.jpg
  • A group of Central Americans looking for their loved ones who disappeared in Mexico walks to the Suchiate River at Ciudad Hidalgo along the border between Mexico and Guatemala on December 18, 2013.<br />
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The group, mostly mothers looking for children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-C462.JPG
  • A group of Central Americans looking for their loved ones who disappeared in Mexico walks to the Suchiate River at Ciudad Hidalgo along the border between Mexico and Guatemala on December 18, 2013.<br />
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The group, mostly mothers looking for children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-C463.JPG
  • Migrants and others cross the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. The river crossing is part of the main route that Central American migrants follow on their way north.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-C436.JPG
  • Migrants and others cross the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. The river crossing is part of the main route that Central American migrants follow on their way north.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-C422.JPG
  • Migrants and others cross the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. The river crossing is part of the main route that Central American migrants follow on their way north.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-C371.JPG
  • A Mexican television reporter records a news report on International Migrants Day on December 18, 2013, as migrants and others cross the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. The river crossing is part of the main route that Central American migrants follow on their way north.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-C412.JPG
  • Migrants and others cross the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. The river crossing is part of the main route that Central American migrants follow on their way north.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-C353.JPG
  • Migrants and others cross the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. The river crossing is part of the main route that Central American migrants follow on their way north.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-C351.JPG
  • Migrants and others cross the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. The river crossing is part of the main route that Central American migrants follow on their way north.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-C334.JPG
  • Sonia Elizabeth Paz migrated north from her home in Honduras but later lost contact with her family back home. On December 17, 2013, she was discovered in Puerto Madero by a group of Central American mothers who'd come to Mexico to search for loved ones who had disappeared on the migrant trail north. Here, as the media watches and listens, she talks by phone to a sister back home in Honduras after being found.
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  • Sonia Elizabeth Paz migrated north from her home in Honduras but later lost contact with her family back home. On December 17, 2013, she was discovered in Puerto Madero by a group of Central American mothers who'd come to Mexico to search for loved ones who had disappeared on the migrant trail north. Here she talks by phone to a sister back home in Honduras after being found.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-B281.JPG
  • A local resident stoops to examine one of dozens of photos laid out on the ground in Puerto Madero, Mexico, on December 17, 2013. The photos were brought by a caravan of Central Americans, mostly mothers looking for their disappeared or trafficked children, who came to Mexico for 17 days.
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  • Sonia Elizabeth Paz migrated north from her home in Honduras but later lost contact with her family back home. On December 17, 2013, she was discovered in Puerto Madero by a group of Central American mothers who'd come to Mexico to search for loved ones who had disappeared on the migrant trail north. Here she talks by phone to a sister back home in Honduras after being found.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-B277.JPG
  • Priscila Cartagena holds a photo of her daughter Yesenia Marleni Gaitán Cartagena during a vigil in Tapachula, Mexico, on December 17, 2013. The Honduran woman was part of a group of Central Americans who came to Mexico in search of family members who disappeared there, many while on their way north to the United States. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones.<br />
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Cartagena, who lives in Tegucigalpa, says her daughter migrated north in 2008, headed to the United States, and last called her from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. She hasn't heard from her since.
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  • People lay photos on the ground in Puerto Madero, Mexico, on December 17, 2013. The photos were brought by a caravan of Central Americans, mostly mothers looking for their disappeared or trafficked children, who came to Mexico for 17 days.
    mexico-2013-jeffrey-migrants-B218.JPG
  • Tomasa Guzman holds a photo of her son Deibis Paz Guzman during a vigil in Tapachula, Mexico, on December 17, 2013. The Honduran woman was part of a group of Central Americans who came to Mexico in search of family members who disappeared there, many while on their way north to the United States. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones.<br />
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Guzman says her son migrated north in 2011, and last called him from Guadalajara, Mexico. She hasn't heard from him since.
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  • Manuela de Jesus Franco Monteroso, 66, holds a photo of her son Juan Neftali Rodriguez Franco during a vigil in Tapachula, Mexico, on December 17, 2013. The woman was part of a group of Central Americans who came to Mexico in search of family members who disappeared there, many while on their way north to the United States. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones.<br />
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Franco, from Guatemala City, last heard from her son on August 18, 2010, when he called her just before attempting to cross the border from Mexico into the United States.
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  • A local resident explains where he has seen a woman whose photo was one of dozens displayed in Puerto Madero, Mexico, on December 17, 2013. The photos were brought by a caravan of Central Americans, mostly mothers looking for their disappeared or trafficked children, who came to Mexico for 17 days.
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  • Ercilia Ayala holds a photo of her son Juan Carlos Rivera Ayala during a vigil in Tapachula, Mexico, on December 17, 2013. The Honduran woman was part of a group of Central Americans who came to Mexico in search of family members who disappeared there, many while on their way north to the United States. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones.<br />
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Ayala says her son migrated north in 2001 when he was 19 years old, and she hasn't heard from him since. The photo she carries was taken when he was 14 years old.
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  • Ercilia Ayala holds a photo of her son Juan Carlos Rivera Ayala during a vigil in Tapachula, Mexico, on December 17, 2013. The Honduran woman was part of a group of Central Americans who came to Mexico in search of family members who disappeared there, many while on their way north to the United States. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones.<br />
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Ayala says her son migrated north in 2001 when he was 19 years old, and she hasn't heard from him since. The photo she carries was taken when he was 14 years old.
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  • A local resident squats to examine dozens of photos laid out on the ground in Puerto Madero, Mexico, on December 17, 2013. The photos were brought by a caravan of Central Americans, mostly mothers looking for their disappeared or trafficked children, who came to Mexico for 17 days.
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  • Santos del Socorro Rojas kisses her son Jorge Alberto Reyes Dávila, with whom she was reunited on December 16, 2013, in Tapachula, Mexico, after nine years of separation. Rojas, from Chinandega, Nicaragua, was one of several dozen Central American mothers who traveled as a group to Mexico to look for their loved ones who had disappeared along the migrant trail north.
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  • Lidia Diego holds a photo of her daughter Nora Morales Diego during a vigil in Tapachula, Mexico, on December 17, 2013. The Guatemalan woman was part of a group of Central Americans who came to Mexico in search of family members who disappeared there, many while on their way north to the United States. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones.
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  • Ana Enamorada, a migrant rights activist from Honduras, takes notes as she talks with Raul Alexi Machado in the Jesus the Good Shepherd of the Poor and Migrant Shelter in Tapachula, Mexico. The shelter provides care for migrants who've been injured or fallen ill on their way north. Machado lost contact with his family in Honduras after he was injured in an automobile accident.<br />
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Enamorada came to Mexico as part of a caravan of 45 Central Americans, mostly mothers, looking for loved ones who had disappeared along the migrant route north or who had become victims of traffickers.
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  • Santos del Socorro Rojas and her son Jorge Alberto Reyes Dávila, with whom she was reunited on December 16, 2013, in Tapachula, Mexico, after nine years of separation. Rojas, from Chinandega, Nicaragua, was one of several dozen Central American mothers who traveled as a group to Mexico to look for their loved ones who had disappeared along the migrant trail north.
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  • A Guatemalan woman holds a photo of her missing son during a vigil in Tapachula, Mexico, on December 16, 2013. The woman was part of a group of Central Americans who came to Mexico in search of family members who disappeared there, many while on their way north to the United States. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones.
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  • Lucia Marcario Perez holds a photo of her husband Mateo Jose Luis Gutierrez Chicoj during a vigil in Tapachula, Mexico, on December 16, 2013. The Maya K'iche'-speaking Guatemalan woman was part of a group of Central Americans who came to Mexico in search of family members who disappeared there, many while on their way north to the United States. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones.<br />
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The woman says her husband left their home in Chichicastenango in 2011, and the last she heard from him was when he called three weeks later from the Mexico-U.S. border to say he was about to cross the desert.
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  • Priscila Cartagena (right) holds a photo of her daughter Yesenia Marleni Gaitán Cartagena as she walks with a group of Central Americans during a demonstration in the center of Tapachula, Mexico, on December 16, 2013. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. <br />
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Cartagena, who lives in Tegucigalpa, says her daughter migrated north in 2008, headed to the United States, and last called her from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. She hasn't heard from her since.
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  • Santos del Socorro Rojas holds a photo of her son Jorge Alberto Reyes Dávila as she walks with a group of Central Americans during a demonstration in the center of Tapachula, Mexico, on December 16, 2013. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. They also demanded that Mexican government officials improve their treatment of migrants transiting the country.<br />
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Rojas, from Chinandega, Nicaragua, was reunited with her son later that same day after people at a church-run migrant shelter recognized the photo. They had been separated for nine years.
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  • Priscila Cartagena holds a photo of her daughter Yesenia Marleni Gaitán Cartagena as she walks with a group of Central Americans during a demonstration in the center of Tapachula, Mexico, on December 16, 2013. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. <br />
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Cartagena, who lives in Tegucigalpa, says her daughter migrated north in 2008, headed to the United States, and last called her from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. She hasn't heard from her since.
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  • At a December 16, 2013 demonstration in the center of Tapachula, Mexico, several dozen Central Americans held photos of family members who disappeared in Mexico. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north or were abducted by human traffickers.
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  • At a December 16, 2013 demonstration in the center of Tapachula, Mexico, several dozen Central Americans held photos of family members who disappeared in Mexico. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north or were abducted by human traffickers.
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  • At a December 16, 2013 demonstration in the center of Tapachula, Mexico, several dozen Central Americans held photos of family members who disappeared in Mexico. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north or were abducted by human traffickers.
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  • Lidia Diego (left) holds a photo of her daughter Nora Morales Diego as she walks with a group of Central Americans searching for family members who disappeared in Mexico. The demonstration took place in the center of Tapachula, Mexico, on December 16, 2013. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north.
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  • A group of Central Americans searching for family members who disappeared in Mexico walks through the center of Tapachula, Mexico, on December 16, 2013. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north.
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