Between June 15, 2020 and March 11, 2021, Cristosal conducted a series of eleven phone interviews with people that had been deported to El Salvador after migrating out of the country. All interviews occurred in the context of Covid-19, featuring respondents who experienced the deportation process during different stages of the pandemic.
El 13 de marzo de 2020 fue decretado en Guatemala el estado de calamidad por motivo del COVID-19, modificándose sustantivamente las dinámicas sociales y políticas del país debido al contexto de la emergencia sanitaria y las limitaciones establecidas a los derechos constitucionales. Esta situación ha durado más de ciento veinte días y aunque los escenarios […]
Este informe presenta información relevante relacionada con los derechos humanos de laspersonas retornadas en el marco del contexto del COVID-19, en el periodo del 24 de julio al 28de agosto de 2020. A partir del 27 de julio de 2020, el Gobierno de Guatemala implementónuevas medidas que flexibilizan las restricciones impuestas por razón de la […]
Barack Obama, then president of the US, declared in July 2014 an “urgent humanitarian situation” on the southern border of the country. In that year, 137,000 children and families had arrived from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, twice as many as the year before. Women, children, and families escaping extreme levels of violence challenged established […]
Infographic with migrant data for the year 2020.
Infographic of data collected from migrant caravans from Guatemala and Honduras.
