Central American Migration

MSF report: Dehumanizing migration policies in the Americas leave hundreds of thousands of people abandoned in danger

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MSF calls on governments in the region to shift away from harsh deterrence tactics and towards humane migration and protection policy. Mexico City, 12 August 2025—In its first six months in office, the current US Administration has implemented the most restrictive and dehumanizing migration policy seen in years, abandoning hundreds of thousands of people hoping … Read more

World Breastfeeding Week: Nurturing hope amid migration challenges in Latin America

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“I’ve breastfed him throughout the entire migration route,” says María*, a 34-year-old Venezuelan mother traveling with her two children. Their journey began in Peru, where her youngest son was born two years ago, and continued through Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. Maria is now a patient at the Doctors Without … Read more

Armed conflict and administrative barriers limit health access in Arauca: MSF responds with mobile clinics

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Arauca, Colombia- In Colombia’s northeastern department of Arauca, continuous migration from Venezuela, intensified armed conflict between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents of the Central General State (EMC), and emergency response from floods, have overwhelmed the local capacity since 2022. In 2024, Arauca was the third department in the country with the highest number … Read more

Mexico: Extracontinental Migration in the Americas

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La Soledad, Mexico– “Since God was with me, I managed to escape,” says Mbala* from La Soledad, an informal migrant camp in the heart of Mexico City. Sitting with his back to one of the capital’s oldest churches, he recounts how only through occasional miracles has his family survived the journey from their home country … Read more

“Violence, desperation and abandonment on the migration route”: MSF presents its migration report in Mexico and Central America

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Migrants crossing through Mexico and Central America are in an unprecedented state of vulnerability. From the diverse areas of work from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) – medic, mental health, social work, and health promotion – we have been able to confirm the numerous ailments that people experience when making the dangerous journey to the United … Read more

Emergency healthcare and protection needed as more people cross to Panama

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Conditions are deteriorating for migrants arriving at reception centres in the province of Darién, Panama. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides medical and mental healthcare at the San Vicente Migrant Reception Centre, where approximately 300 migrants arrive each day, and we have witnessed huge gaps in protection and basic emergency services at the centre.  Safe routes must be established … Read more

USA: MSF demands US ends deportations to stop COVID-19 spread to fragile health systems

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MEXICO CITY/NEW YORK – The United States government must suspend all deportations to Latin America and the Caribbean, a process that is moving people from the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States to lower transmission countries and which will exacerbate a public health crisis in the region, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said. “Despite the … Read more

Escaping violence into danger – no way out for Central American migrants

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MEXICO CITY/NEW YORK – New migration policies imposed by the United States and Mexico are trapping many Central Americans in dangerous conditions, with severe consequences for their physical and mental health, said Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a new report. The report, No Way Out, is based on 480 interviews and testimonies of Central American migrants and asylum seekers, experiences of MSF … Read more

Central American Migration: More people kidnapped, abused on migration route in southern Mexico

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MEXICO CITY —Teams working in Tenosique, Mexico for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are reporting an increase in kidnappings and an escalation of violence faced by migrants and refugees on Mexico’s southern border. In testimonies collected in recent weeks by MSF staff providing medical and psychological care to migrants travelling through southeastern Mexico, patients speak of abductions, torture, extreme … Read more

Central American Migration: US migration policy endangers lives of asylum seekers in Tamaulipas state

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MEXICO CITY: The lives of asylum seekers are being put in danger in Tamaulipas state, in northeastern Mexico, by the US government’s Migration Protection Protocol (MPP) and the Mexican government’s lack of humanitarian assistance, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The MPP forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are processed, staying in cities … Read more