:00:08. > :00:14.It is 533. It is time for Our World. What is happening is that people
:00:14. > :00:23.are emerging all over the place. Deraa fall guy is coming from the
:00:23. > :00:30.track behind us. -- there Aref. People have crossed from Guatemala.
:00:30. > :00:35.Now, the drugs cartels are making this journey perilous. The messages,
:00:35. > :00:45.I don't mess with us or we will mess with you. It is a very violent
:00:45. > :00:54.
:00:54. > :01:04.fashion. The cartel's target Every year, 300,000 Central
:01:04. > :01:27.
:01:27. > :01:37.Americans have risked their lives Santa Alan are in the tropical
:01:37. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:42.north of Guatemala is a well-known stop off. -- Santa Elena. They
:01:42. > :01:46.arrived. When we meet Johnny and Miguel, they have not eaten for
:01:46. > :01:49.three days. They were travelling to the United States when they were
:01:49. > :01:54.kidnapped by the Zetas, the bloodiest cartel. They were so
:01:54. > :02:04.badly shaken, they decided to turn back and are on their way home to
:02:04. > :02:32.
:02:32. > :02:42.What happened to the other six people that were taken with you
:02:42. > :02:52.
:02:52. > :02:56.Mexican cartels are moving south into neighbouring Guatemala. Drugs
:02:57. > :03:02.have been flown in and out using landing strips deep in the jungle.
:03:02. > :03:07.The Zetas began operating here in 2008 in alliance with local
:03:07. > :03:13.organised crime. They now want to control these roads and there are
:03:13. > :03:18.fears they want to target migrants as well. Organised crime is a story
:03:18. > :03:24.that is constantly covered by local media. Investigative journalists
:03:24. > :03:29.have followed the cartel's move to Guatemala. It is about business.
:03:29. > :03:33.Aside from making a profit from trafficking and drugs, they can
:03:33. > :03:38.also make profit from extorting migrants or kidnapping them. They
:03:38. > :03:47.are going to do it. If they manage to control complete sections of the
:03:47. > :03:51.territory near the border under Guatemala's side, we will see a
:03:51. > :03:57.situation where migrants are being charged for crossing. Either they
:03:57. > :04:02.are migrants or traffickers. Santa Elena, the journey takes them
:04:02. > :04:07.west to the Mexican border. Locals told us that some of these huge
:04:07. > :04:13.ranchers have just appeared in the last few years, are funded by drug
:04:13. > :04:18.money. A pick-up truck of soldiers escorts us off the dirt track road
:04:18. > :04:21.to one of these writers, the scene of a massacre that happened in May.
:04:21. > :04:28.It is one of the most violent incidents that Guatemala has seen
:04:28. > :04:38.in decades. The 27 farm workers who were murdered here we tortured and
:04:38. > :04:40.
:04:40. > :04:43.decapitated. Two survivors said a large group of men arrived in a
:04:43. > :04:50.four-wheel drive at night, looking for the owner. He was not there, so
:04:50. > :04:54.their workers were killed. It was allegedly for an unpaid debt.
:04:54. > :05:03.Written in the blood of one of the victims, the message is addressed
:05:03. > :05:07.to the ranch owner and reeds, I am going to find you and I am going to
:05:07. > :05:12.lead you like this. This is a spooky place, with the sounds of
:05:12. > :05:16.the birds. The bodies were found behind me. What happened here was
:05:16. > :05:23.targeted, extreme and very bloody violence. But the fear is that this
:05:23. > :05:27.will not be a one-off. With the Zetas wanting to take control of
:05:27. > :05:32.the territory and everything that moves through it - the guns, the
:05:32. > :05:35.people and the drugs. The Zetas have changed the name of the game
:05:35. > :05:41.here because they don't have any territory. They don't have it in
:05:41. > :05:48.Mexico and they don't have it here and the only way they can concur
:05:48. > :05:53.this territory for themselves is through violence. Then -- the
:05:53. > :06:03.message is don't mess with us or we will mess with you, in a very
:06:03. > :06:05.
:06:05. > :06:15.violent wave. After the massacre, the government moved swiftly,
:06:15. > :06:15.
:06:15. > :07:21.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 65 seconds
:07:21. > :07:25.Do you feel as though you are in The state's resources are limited.
:07:25. > :07:34.The colonel will not say how many more soldiers have been drafted
:07:34. > :07:41.into the region since the massacre. Her 10 is a large area, a third of
:07:41. > :07:51.the whole of Guatemala. -- Peten. Perfect organised groups to meld
:07:51. > :08:10.
:08:10. > :08:17.El Naranjo is a typical border town. Contraband moves in an act.
:08:17. > :08:21.Migrants pass through daily. Some of them travel independently.
:08:21. > :08:26.Others arrive in groups and pay thousands of dollars to traffickers
:08:26. > :08:36.to organise their entire journey into the United States. From El
:08:36. > :08:36.
:08:36. > :08:43.Naranjo, they travel by boat for four powers into Mexico. -- four
:08:43. > :08:53.hours. Early morning, the birds are already on the move and the boat
:08:53. > :09:14.
:09:14. > :09:18.owners begin the wait for We meet them for breakfast. Both
:09:18. > :09:28.were unemployed back Road and they are convinced they will find work
:09:28. > :09:55.
:09:55. > :09:57.in the United States. But so far, You have left behind a wife and a
:09:58. > :10:07.baby cries back what did your wife say when you said you wanted to
:10:08. > :10:30.
:10:30. > :10:35.make this journey to the United You both talked about the risks
:10:35. > :10:39.that you run making this journey. Neither have mentioned the Zetas,
:10:39. > :10:49.the Mexican cartel that is taking migrants. Are you worried about
:10:49. > :11:12.
:11:12. > :11:16.The river runs from Guatemala ride it to Mexico across the border. It
:11:16. > :11:22.is part of the traditional route that thousands of American migrants
:11:22. > :11:26.take every deer in their bid to get to the US. You can cross from this
:11:26. > :11:31.part into Mexico by road but the risk of getting stopped by the
:11:31. > :11:41.authorities there is very high. So, they have decided to take a chance
:11:41. > :11:47.
:11:47. > :11:52.by boat. They try to organise their crossing. Other boats leave but
:11:52. > :11:56.they don't get a place on board. It becomes apparent that we are the
:11:56. > :12:02.problem and we are told there is no way of them getting a bride until
:12:02. > :12:12.we leave town. -- are getting a bride. We head off and think,
:12:12. > :12:12.
:12:12. > :12:16.perhaps we will meet them again in Mexico. We enter Mexico. There are
:12:16. > :12:24.no restrictions on Central Americans travelling here. But once
:12:24. > :12:29.they arrive in Mexico, they are more vulnerable and can be deported.
:12:29. > :12:39.The majority of migrants head for a Mexican town around 60 kilometres
:12:39. > :12:40.
:12:40. > :12:50.from the border with Guatemala. From there, the migrants catch
:12:50. > :12:53.transport up to the border with the US. One monk regularly drives there
:12:53. > :13:00.to visit migrants waiting for the train. There is no fixed schedule
:13:00. > :13:05.so people have to camp out, sometimes for days. He is a mite --
:13:05. > :13:10.a magnet for migrants. The people are emerging from all over the
:13:10. > :13:14.place. There are four guys over there. Four guys coming down the
:13:14. > :13:18.track behind us. And the mud is giving them directions on how to
:13:18. > :13:28.get there without hurting themselves. It is swamped here.
:13:28. > :13:30.
:13:30. > :13:40.Here they come. Four of them. Are you friends? These are all of his
:13:40. > :14:03.
:14:03. > :14:11.friends that have arrived. That is These are the railway tracks that
:14:11. > :14:15.run through the town. The monk has brought us here to meet some of the
:14:15. > :14:19.people camping out. Since we have been here, there is people have
:14:19. > :14:26.come out of the pushers from across the swamp. This man has taken seven
:14:26. > :14:29.days to get here. They have been waiting for three days. They take
:14:29. > :14:33.it in turns to sleep to make sure they do not miss the train. They
:14:33. > :14:43.say they are most worried about the physical danger they face getting
:14:43. > :14:44.
:14:44. > :14:50.on a moving train. As he leaves, Brother Tomas warns the men of the
:14:50. > :14:56.dangers they face. He tells them that Mexico is especially dangerous
:14:56. > :15:02.for them and organised crime and groups will kidnap and kill. --
:15:02. > :15:07.crime groups. He takes us to win the Tories kidnap spot where more
:15:07. > :15:17.central Americans are waiting for a train. This is where migrants are
:15:17. > :15:27.often a knowingly befriended by cartel members. Then, they are
:15:27. > :16:03.
:16:03. > :16:07.ambushed and rounded up. -- He regularly makes complaints
:16:07. > :16:12.against agents from the National Institute of migration. The body
:16:13. > :16:18.responsible for looking after and supporting illegal migrants from
:16:18. > :16:27.Mexico. He gives us this footage of a recent incidents. This migration
:16:27. > :16:33.agent is chasing a woman. He has a machete. As people look on, she was
:16:33. > :16:37.forced to jump in the river. She was rescued by a local boat man.
:16:37. > :16:41.The agency told us this agent has since been sacked but so far, he
:16:41. > :16:47.has not been charged with any offence. Earlier in the year, it
:16:47. > :16:51.was reported that 200 agents had lost their jobs as a result of
:16:51. > :16:55.abuse. 40 were accused of serious crime. The government has responded
:16:55. > :16:59.to the catalogue of complaints against Migration agents with the
:16:59. > :17:09.new law. It reform to the aged and the colonises the act of entering
:17:09. > :17:19.Mexico without papers. -- decriminalise this the Act. But
:17:19. > :17:19.
:17:19. > :17:29.those who live here are vulnerable, too. The shops are open and
:17:29. > :17:30.
:17:30. > :17:35.business goes on but people are nervous here. Few venture out after
:17:35. > :17:40.dark because of a fear of organised crime. Groups recruit thousands of
:17:40. > :17:44.Central Americans who come and go across the borders. A local
:17:44. > :17:54.businessman born here has suffered greatly as a result of the movement
:17:54. > :18:29.
:18:29. > :18:34.He says the men who took his son were from Honduras. Some of them
:18:34. > :18:44.were captured, young men in their 20s, who progressed from people
:18:44. > :18:55.
:18:55. > :19:02.trafficking to kidnapping and then But he is sympathetic to migrants
:19:02. > :19:12.on their way to the US. He is a volunteer with the Red Cross. An
:19:12. > :19:13.
:19:13. > :19:17.organisation working with those who pass through. He visits to see if
:19:17. > :19:23.the two men we left have arrived. They could have made the journey in
:19:23. > :19:28.one day. Brother Thomas tells me there is no word. But he will take
:19:28. > :19:32.with the migration agents to see if they have been picked up. -- he
:19:32. > :19:37.will check. Perhaps they decided not to wait for the train and took
:19:37. > :19:46.a different route. Or maybe they have been kidnapped. This was the
:19:46. > :19:56.fate of nearly 11,500 migrants in just six months last year. But many
:19:56. > :20:18.
:20:18. > :20:24.of those can tell you the journey It is an act of desperation.
:20:24. > :20:28.fact they are willing to put themselves through that situation.
:20:28. > :20:34.You see, for example, groups of women in their 40s going by
:20:34. > :20:44.themselves with no traffickers, nobody. It is a desperation that
:20:44. > :20:53.
:20:53. > :21:03.they are willing to put themselves Days later, there is still no news
:21:03. > :21:11.
:21:11. > :21:16.of the two. A train pulls into the It could take these people weeks to
:21:16. > :21:24.get to the US. That is if they make it at all. Through to rain
:21:24. > :21:31.dominated by the cartels. They are prey to corrupt officials. --