If there’s a lack of information about people trying to come from Central America to the United States, there are teachers in this world trying to inform us. Father Flor María is one of them. He is a Scalabrini Brother with a long flowing robe and an even longer flowing beard. With his hands up in the air and a cross around his neck, he is the eccentric director of Albergue Belén in Tapachula.
Fr. Flor María said that the Albergue was a springboard for the migrants to continue their travel and an umbrella to protect them. They provide migrants with food and a roof over their heads for three days as they go into Mexico, the hardest country for Central Americans to pass before going into the United States.
The father had a lot of stories to tell us about migrants, some who reached the United States and others who had to try over and over again. He’s seen it all. He talked about the corruption in Mexico—a corruption so bad that he considered Mexico a “cemetery without crosses”. He said that it was a cat-and-mouse game for the police and migrants: the cats get fat and the mice keep on running.
Even though this world of migrants had so much bad in it, Fr. Flor María still believed in the Zapatistas. He thought of the group of indigenous rebels as the “revolution of tomorrow”.
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