Migrants in Mexico

A freight train carries hundreds of migrants through San Veracruz state, Mexico Photograph: Ricardo Ramírez Arriola/Amnesty International Photograph: Ricardo Ramírez Arriola/guardian.co.uk A young woman at a shelter for migrants in Tierra Blanca, San Veracruz state. Stories of sexual assault of women and girls are common on this leg of the journey Photograph: Ricardo Ramírez /Amnesty International (Photo: Ricardo Ram rez Arriola) Photograph: Ricardo Ramírez /guardian.co.uk Migrants gather around a local newspaper to read about a mass kidnapping of migrants by a criminal gang known as the Zetas Photograph: Ricardo Ramírez Arriola/Amnesty International Photograph: Ricardo Ramírez Arriola/guardian.co.uk Two women wait to offer help to migrants as they ride the trains through Estacion Chontalpa, Tabasco state. Certain villages along the routes are well-known places where locals hand out free food to the migrants hanging off the railroad cars. Some villagers even open up their homes to migrants Photograph: Ricardo Ramírez Arriola/Amnesty International Photograph: Ricardo Ramírez Arriola/guardian.co.uk A Central American migrant rests on a piece of cardboard by the tracks awaiting his next ride. It's impossible to tell when the train will come - there are no schedules Photograph: Ricardo Ramírez Arriola/Amnesty International Photograph: Ricardo Ramírez Arriola/guardian.co.uk