By Moncho Torres Panama City, Apr 11 (EFE).- The Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States, Alejandro Mayorkas, warned Tuesday that migrants who try to reach US territory through illegal avenues would be sent back. Mayorkas, who held a meeting on Tuesday in the Panamanian capital with the foreign ministers of Colombia and Panama …
By Moncho Torres Bajo Chiquito, Panama, Mar 21 (EFE).- “Warriors” is a word oft-repeated by the mothers of boys and girls who have made their way through the treacherous Darien Gap, a merciless stretch of jungle that separates Colombia and Panama and is an obligatory route for many migrants trying to cross into Central America …
By Moncho Torres Bajo Chiquito, Panama, Mar 20 (EFE).- Having just come through the Darien jungle, they are exhausted, dragging their feet, sweaty, desperate for water. “Terrible, terrible, it was the worst,” they gasp. They are migrants who can’t believe that after their several-day trek they have managed to get through the nightmare of death, …
By Moncho Torres Patna, India, Dec 17 (EFE).- At the bottom of the Hindu caste system in India is the oppressed Dalit community or “untouchables”, and the poorest among are the Musahars, meaning “rat eaters.” But the women of this community have stood up against discrimination in a movement for dignity and respect. They are …
By Moncho Torres Laxmanpur-Bathe, India, Dec 1 (EFE).- On Dec. 1, 1997, Hindu upper caste radicals armed with guns and machetes killed 58 villagers in north India, most of them members of the marginalized Dalit community, whose quest for justice remains unfulfilled even 25 years later. The village of Laxmanpur-Bathe, which borders the Sone river …