Interactive Map Helps Migrants Survive 'The Beast' Jorge Calvillo - Latinos Post
go to original September 9, 2013

According to Sin Embargo, starting on October, Central Americans journeying on board "The Beast", will be able to use a free tool that will give them the necessary information to survive during the long train ride.

The Interactive Map on Migration Mobility in Mexico is a project by the Iberoamerican University of Mexico, with the purpose of helping migrants stay informed of the dangers that await them when crossing Mexican territory, which will help them take decisions on whether to cross or not the country, and in which conditions.

In an interview given to Mexican news website Sin Embargo, Javier Urbano Reyes, coordinator of the Migration Issues Program (Prami) of the Iberoamerican University, explained that the map is "a tool that leaves behind solemn information and makes it digestible and operative so that thousands of migrants can easily understand the information, as well as activists or anyone studying or interested in the subject of migration".

Urbano Reyes explained that the map can be downloaded through Twitter and Facebook, and has the main function of providing precise data on the location of shelters, as well as zones with risk of human trafficking, robbery, kidnapping and extortion they might face on their way through The Beast's route.

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