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Having no migration or commercial controls, the Suchiate river serves as an illegal crossing point between the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Every day, hundreds of people from both countries, crossing the river on the unstable rafts called ìcamarasî, smuggle soft drinks, toilet papers, fruits, vegetables and other supplies. The river crossing is also widely used by the Central America immigrants heading to the north, to the United States, in the search of...
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  • A Guatemalan boatman carries a makeshift inner tube raft, used for smuggling people and goods, on the bank of the Suchiate river in Tecún Umán, Guatemala, 21 May 2011. Having no migration or commercial controls, the Suchiate river serves as an illegal crossing point between the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Every day, hundreds of people from both countries, crossing the river on the unstable rafts called ?camaras?, smuggle soft drinks, toilet papers, fruits, vegetables and other supplies. The river crossing is also widely used by the Central America immigrants heading to the north, to the United States, in the search of better life.

  • Makeshift inner tube rafts, carrying smuggled goods and border area workers, cross the Suchiate river from Mexico to Tecún Umán, Guatemala, 22 May 2011. Having no migration or commercial controls, the Suchiate river serves as an illegal crossing point between the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Every day, hundreds of people from both countries, crossing the river on the unstable rafts called ?camaras?, smuggle soft drinks, toilet papers, fruits, vegetables and other supplies. The river crossing is also widely used by the Central America immigrants heading to the north, to the United States, in the search of better life.

  • A Central America immigrant, sitting on a inner tube raft, crosses the Suchiate river from Tecún Umán, Guatemala, to Mexico, 22 May 2011. Having no migration or commercial controls, the Suchiate river serves as an illegal crossing point between the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Every day, hundreds of people from both countries, crossing the river on the unstable rafts called ?camaras?, smuggle soft drinks, toilet papers, fruits, vegetables and other supplies. The river crossing is also widely used by the Central America immigrants heading to the north, to the United States, in the search of better life.

  • Makeshift inner tube rafts, carrying smuggled goods and border area workers, cross the Suchiate river from Mexico to Tecún Umán, Guatemala, 22 May 2011. Having no migration or commercial controls, the Suchiate river serves as an illegal crossing point between the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Every day, hundreds of people from both countries, crossing the river on the unstable rafts called ?camaras?, smuggle soft drinks, toilet papers, fruits, vegetables and other supplies. The river crossing is also widely used by the Central America immigrants heading to the north, to the United States, in the search of better life.

  • A makeshift inner tube raft, carrying immigrants from Central America, leaves the shore of the Suchiate river in Tecún Umán, Guatemala, heading to Mexico, 22 May 2011. Having no migration or commercial controls, the Suchiate river serves as an illegal crossing point between the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Every day, hundreds of people from both countries, crossing the river on the unstable rafts called ?camaras?, smuggle soft drinks, toilet papers, fruits, vegetables and other supplies. The river crossing is also widely used by the Central America immigrants heading to the north, to the United States, in the search of better life.

  • A makeshift inner tube raft, used for smuggling people and goods, crosses the Suchiate river from Mexico to Tecún Umán, Guatemala, 22 May 2011. Having no migration or commercial controls, the Suchiate river serves as an illegal crossing point between the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Every day, hundreds of people from both countries, crossing the river on the unstable rafts called ?camaras?, smuggle soft drinks, toilet papers, fruits, vegetables and other supplies. The river crossing is also widely used by the Central America immigrants heading to the north, to the United States, in the search of better life.

  • A Guatemalan boy carries smuggled corn flakes and toilet papers on the shore of the Suchiate river in Tecún Umán, Guatemala, 22 May 2011. Having no migration or commercial controls, the Suchiate river serves as an illegal crossing point between the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Every day, hundreds of people from both countries, crossing the river on the unstable rafts called ?camaras?, smuggle soft drinks, toilet papers, fruits, vegetables and other supplies. The river crossing is also widely used by the Central America immigrants heading to the north, to the United States, in the search of better life.

  • A makeshift inner tube raft, used for smuggling people and goods, crosses the Suchiate river from Mexico to Tecún Umán, Guatemala, 22 May 2011. Having no migration or commercial controls, the Suchiate river serves as an illegal crossing point between the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Every day, hundreds of people from both countries, crossing the river on the unstable rafts called ?camaras?, smuggle soft drinks, toilet papers, fruits, vegetables and other supplies. The river crossing is also widely used by the Central America immigrants heading to the north, to the United States, in the search of better life.

  • Boxes of smuggled goods are loaded on the inner tube rafts anchored on the shore of the Suchiate river in Tecún Umán, Guatemala, 23 May 2011. Having no migration or commercial controls, the Suchiate river serves as an illegal crossing point between the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Every day, hundreds of people from both countries, crossing the river on the unstable rafts called ?camaras?, smuggle soft drinks, toilet papers, fruits, vegetables and other supplies. The river crossing is also widely used by the Central America immigrants heading to the north, to the United States, in the search of better life.

  • A makeshift inner tube raft, used for smuggling people and goods, crosses the Suchiate river from Tecún Umán, Guatemala, to Mexico, 22 May 2011. Having no migration or commercial controls, the Suchiate river serves as an illegal crossing point between the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Every day, hundreds of people from both countries, crossing the river on the unstable rafts called ?camaras?, smuggle soft drinks, toilet papers, fruits, vegetables and other supplies. The river crossing is also widely used by the Central America immigrants heading to the north, to the United States, in the search of better life.

  • Makeshift inner tube rafts, carrying smuggled goods, border area workers and immigrants from Central America, cross the Suchiate river to Mexico from Tecún Umán, Guatemala, 22 May 2011. Having no migration or commercial controls, the Suchiate river serves as an illegal crossing point between the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Every day, hundreds of people from both countries, crossing the river on the unstable rafts called ?camaras?, smuggle soft drinks, toilet papers, fruits, vegetables and other supplies. The river crossing is also widely used by the Central America immigrants heading to the north, to the United States, in the search of better life.

  • A makeshift inner tube raft, loaded with smuggled toilet papers, crosses the Suchiate river from Mexico to Tecún Umán, Guatemala, 23 May 2011. Having no migration or commercial controls, the Suchiate river serves as an illegal crossing point between the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Every day, hundreds of people from both countries, crossing the river on the unstable rafts called ?camaras?, smuggle soft drinks, toilet papers, fruits, vegetables and other supplies. The river crossing is also widely used by the Central America immigrants heading to the north, to the United States, in the search of better life.

  • Guatemalan border area workers get on a makeshift inner tube raft to cross the Suchiate river from Tecún Umán, Guatemala, to Mexico, 22 May 2011. Having no migration or commercial controls, the Suchiate river serves as an illegal crossing point between the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Every day, hundreds of people from both countries, crossing the river on the unstable rafts called ?camaras?, smuggle soft drinks, toilet papers, fruits, vegetables and other supplies. The river crossing is also widely used by the Central America immigrants heading to the north, to the United States, in the search of better life.

  • Makeshift inner tube rafts, carrying smuggled goods, border area workers and immigrants from Central America, cross the Suchiate river in Tecún Umán, Guatemala, 22 May 2011. Having no migration or commercial controls, the Suchiate river serves as an illegal crossing point between the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. Every day, hundreds of people from both countries, crossing the river on the unstable rafts called ?camaras?, smuggle soft drinks, toilet papers, fruits, vegetables and other supplies. The river crossing is also widely used by the Central America immigrants heading to the north, to the United States, in the search of better life.