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LGBTQ migrants face ‘triple vulnerability’ as a group in Mexico aims to help them

Dayling Ramírez says that each day that passes is a challenge to overcome because, despite having survived the persecution of the Mara Salvatrucha gang and the abuses in an immigration station in Mexico, Ramírez hasn’t yet fully integrated into the country’s society. “We trans people have a hard time getting hired, it’s horrible. Here you survive if you are a stylist or if you are a prostitute, otherwise not. They don’t give you work,” said Ramírez, a 36-year-old Honduran trans woman who lives in Mexico City. Mexico has become one of the largest migratory corridors in the world. In fiscal […]

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‘We live in fear’: Over 6,000 migrants in Mexico have been violently attacked

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Yorje Pérez Moreno traveled thousands of miles from Venezuela to reach Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, leaving his family, friends and studies, as he fled the violence of state security forces who allegedly persecuted him for participating in anti-government protests. “My dream was to finish college, but they wouldn’t let me. They beat me, chased me and threatened to imprison me, that’s why I had to leave,” Pérez Moreno, 23, said.  He said that in early August, when he was finally a few miles from the U.S. border, he took a taxi with a friend who accompanied him to request asylum at the […]

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‘We are invisible’: Discrimination and risks multiply for Indigenous LGBTQ in Mexico

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Wilter Gómez was 12 years old when his stepfather took him from his hometown in Gracias a Dios, Honduras, to the jungle. After walking for hours on remote trails, the man began to beat him repeatedly.  “He wanted me to disappear,” Gómez said bitterly. His stepfather threw him and left him in a ditch full of water, but the intense pain from the beatings caused Gómez to wake up, saving him from drowning. He never returned to his Gracias a Dios home. “My only sin was being who I am, a gay person. My people are very discriminated against because we don’t speak Spanish […]