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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | March 2007 
Leaky Mexico-Belize Border
 Prensa Latina
| | Central American migrants ride a train headed north through Mexico on their way to the United States. |
Trafficking with people, drugs, arms and Central American women is commonplace in Quintana Roo, at the southern Mexican border with Belize.
Hundreds of places are unguarded at what El Universal daily defines as a liquid, unmarked, imaginary border along the 112 mile Hondo river.
Such are the cases of La Union, San Francisco Botes, Cacao and El Ingenio villages.
People can cross the river on foot from Belize to La Union and although the Navy improved patrol they neither request ID at night nor detain anyone.
Next to San Francisco Botes, Belize Police seized in September cargoes of AK-47 and R-15 rifles heading to Mexico and detained seven Nicaraguans and one Belize citizen abandoned along the roadside in Cacao.
El Universal also talks of brothels operating with Central American women in El Ingenio, a sugar plantation village.
Mexican Police Arrest 70 Undocumented Guatemalans
XinhuaMexico's Preventative Federal Police (PFP) have arrested 70 undocumented Guatemalans in northern Mexico, the National Migration Agency (INM) said Wednesday.
The detention took place Tuesday night on the Mexico-Ciudad Juarez highway, in Gomez Palacio, a city in the northern state of Durango. During a routine check at the El Vergel checkpoint, the police discovered the illegal migrants in a hidden compartment of a Dina trailer truck.
Police also arrested the driver, Alberto Rodriguez Lopez. All were taken to Ciudad Juarez, a city in the northern Mexican state of Chihuaha, where they will each pay 3,000 pesos (272 U.S. dollars).
Detainees and the truck were all in custody of the State Attorney's Office in Durango, 740 km north of Mexico City.
According to INM data, the number of Central Americans trying to sneak into the United States has risen 11 percent in 2007 from 2006. Guatemalans topped the list of Mexican arrests, totaling 300 so far this year and 84,523 in 2006. |
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