Friar Defies Gangs to Help Migrants on Mexico's Southern Border with Guatemala Agence France-Presse
go to original April 10, 2013

In a brown friar's robe and sandals, Tomas Gonzalez doesn't look like a death threat-defying, government-challenging, hardcore migrants' rights activist. But appearances can be deceptive.

"Everything that has been done to migrants in this country is because Mexican authorities have given permission for it to be done," Gonzalez told migrants near Mexico's southern border with Guatemala as he warned bluntly of abuses and human trafficking that often turn fatal.

Gonzalez may look peaceful and harmless in his straw hat, but his defiant, tough-as-nails reputation has earned him the nickname "the tornado."

Drug cartels have put a bounty on his meddlesome head. And authorities often prefer to look the other way where he is concerned.

But Gonzalez, 39, keeps hammering away, demanding attention be paid to the crimes affecting migrants on a daily basis.

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