Central America's caravan of mothers: Personal grief and political grievance

A Nicaraguan mother holds a photograph of her son in Mexico City during the mother's caravan in 2019. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

On Mexican Mother’s Day on May 10, 2022, Central American and Mexican mothers searching for their disappeared children marched through the streets of Mexico City.

They demanded answers from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and are seeking justice for their loved ones who suffer violence across the vertical border, a reference to how the U.S.-Mexico border has been extended across all of Mexico territory to block Central American migrants.