Each year a thousands of Central American immigrants cross through Mexico trying to reach the United States. The transit through Mexico involves a set of multiple risks fluctuating from the precarious transposition aboard the train "la Bestia", to the always latent possibility of being a victim of extortion, kidnapping and human trafficking by different Organized crime groups. This humanitarian crisis has been portrayed from different angles and literary genres by Mexican novelists such as Rafael Ramírez Heredia in La Mara (2004), Alejandro Hernández in Amarás a dios sobre todas las cosas (2013), Antonio Ortuño in La fila India (2013), and Emiliano Monge in Las tierras arrasadas (2015). This article analyzes how Mexican novelists have appro...