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No pregnant woman would hike 400 kilometers on foot through remote areas of western China just to have her baby. That's why humans have hospitals.

Verdad First of a three-part series  Running children and crying babies create a cacophony at El Buen Samaritano shelter, but in a far corner, Carmela holds her 2-year-old in silence. She can’t communicate with anyone — she doesn’t know Spanish, and no one at the facility can understand the Indigenous language she speaks. Indigenous migrants like Carmela encounter extra hurdles in attempting to reach the United States: communication difficulties, cultural barriers and anti-Indigenous discrimination. In this three-part series, we’ll trace the path of a migration journey from Guatem...

Indigenous diaspora: Leaving home and the journey across Mexico René Kladzyk and Maria Ramos Pacheco/El Paso Matters and Veronica Martinez/La Verdad First of a three-part series Running children and crying babies create a cacophony at El Buen Samaritano shelter, but in a far corner, Carmela holds her 2-year-old in silence. She can’t communicate with anyone -- she doesn’t know Spanish, and no one at the facility can understand the Indigenous language she speaks.  Indigenous migrants like Carmela encounter extra hurdles in attempting to reach the United States: communicati...

Sandra Tec Yam, alcaldesa de Ixil, Yucatán, regaló por el día de las madres postres, refrescos y ¿por qué no? Baile con strippers a domicilio como parte de

This piece was edited prior to the start of the GSOC, UAW Local 2110 strike. I had just arrived to Ilom, Chajul in June 2019 when I heard the news that the Minister of Governance had signed an agreement with the Trump administration to make Guatemala a safe third country. I felt disoriented. Speaking with an elder from Ilom, he told me about the women and children who had migrated within the past year, others who were recently deported, and those that still planned to go. It is a three-hour bus trip on a muddy and bumpy dirt road from the town center of Chajul to Ilom. A little past half-way,...