Violence in Mexico and Central America driving large waves of migration

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Waves of migration through Mexico and Central America, and people who go missing, will increase in 2022 due to high levels of violence in the region, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said.

In many countries, violence is wreaking more and more havoc, and that's why there are more and more migrants," ICRC representative Jordi Raich told Reuters in an interview Wednesday. And it's not a situation that is going to improve or slow down, not even in the years to come.