The Northern Triangle

Published in El Caribe
(Dominican Republic) on 28 June 2018
by Claudia Fernández (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Madeleine Brink. Edited by Helaine Schweitzer.
The so-called Northern Triangle of Central America is comprised of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. People from these three countries are the main group bearing down on the southern United States border. According to the Pew Research Center based in Washington, D.C., illegal Mexican immigration to the U.S. has decreased in the last few years, while it has increased for people migrating from the Northern Triangle. The main reason for such high numbers of migrants is extreme criminal violence that has become embedded in their communities.

Many people from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras who cross the United States border are not technically immigrants entering the U.S. illegally, then, but people who have lived under threat in their home countries. These are potential humanitarian refugees. The right to asylum is the main variable in this drama.


El llamado “triángulo norte” centroamericano: Guatemala, El Salvador y Honduras, es ahora quien presiona más la frontera sur de Estados Unidos. Refiere el Pew Research Center, de Washington, que la migración ilegal mexicana ha disminuido en los últimos años, mientras que ha aumentado la proveniente de aquella tríada. La razón es la violencia criminal, que ha llegado ahí a un punto tal que se ha convertido en la causa por la que muchos huyen hacia el norte. Muchos salvadoreños, guatemaltecos y hondureños que cruzan la frontera estadounidense no son así emigrantes ilegales propiamente dichos, sino gente que alega estar amenazada en su país de origen, potenciales refugiados humanitarios. El derecho de asilo es la variable principal de ese drama.

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