In the United States, there’s a widespread notion that Mexicans fleeing cartel violence head north. In reality, most of these people move somewhere else in Mexico, becoming internal refugees in their own country. But the Mexican government has yet to acknowledge the scope of the problem. Reporter Lynda Lopez traveled to Mexico with the team at Refugees International and examines something unimaginable in the U.S., but very common there.
Photo of Paola and her family
It would be nice if Latino USA used its journalistic voice to raise awareness of the actual cause of this violence to Latinos. Cartels are just an effect. The real cause is drug prohibition in the USA. No prohibition, no cartels. No prohibition, no violence, no refugees.