![]() In December 2018, a few days after a party of the Left took office in Mexico for the first time in modern history, and in the face of the recent flows of Central American migrants traveling as groups or “caravans,” the newly appointed commissioner of Mexico's National Institute for Migration, Tonatiuh Guillén, declared that Mexico “will not be a country of open doors, nor a sanctuary country.” This was a surprising move away from the new government's position, expressed months earlier by Olga Sánchez Cordero, appointed Minister of the Interior, who affirmed that with Andrés Manuel López Obrador's incoming administration (2018–2024), Mexico would return to its tradition as a country of asylum and refuge, as it had during moments of political and economic crises in Europe, and Central and South America in the twentieth century. ![]()
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