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The Chagas disease is a tropical parasitic epidemic of global reach, spread mostly across 17 Latin America countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates more than six million infected people worldwide~\cite{who2016}. Most transmissions occur in the endemic regions in America via the \textit{Trypanosoma cruzi} parasite, vector-borne by the \textit{Triatomine} insect family. In recent years and due to globalization and migrations, the disease has become a health issue in other continents, particularly in countries who receive Latin American inmigrants such as Spain and the United States~\cite{schmunis2010chagas}, converting it into a world health problem.  The disease may last asymptomatically up to 10 years in the infected individual without being detected. This characteristic vastly difficults the effective detection and treatment of infected individuals. In this process, long-term human mobility plays a key role. In particular, seasonal and permanent rural-urban migration has played a major role in remobilizing Chagas-infected individuals \cite{briceno2009chagas}.  Relevant routes of transmission also include blood transfusion and congenital transmission, estimating 1300 newborns infected each year \ref{trabajos_de_}.\begin{comment} \cite{trabajos_de_}.  % \begin{comment}  en el drive estan las ppt del min salud \end{comment}. Thedisease may last asymptomatically up to 10 years in the infected individual without being detected. This characteristic vastly reduces the chance of effective treatment and the tracking of infected individuals. Also, the  spatial dissemination of a congenitally transmitted disease sidesteps the available measures to control risk groups groups,  and slowly introduces the disease to the general population. In this process, long-term human mobility plays a key role.  Working under the auspices of the \textit{Mundo Sano} Foundation shows that individuals  who provided key health expertise on the subject, in this work we discuss the use of CDRs for the analysis of mobility patterns and the detection of possible risk zones of Chagas disease in Latin America. We intend have not been exposed  topredict population movements between different regions, providing a proxy for  the epidemic spread. The objective is to show that these types of logs are rich in social and individual information to determine whether an individual has lived disease vector should also be included  in an epidemic area. An argentinian and a mexican case study are presented using data provided by telecommunication companies (TelCo) from each country. A discussion of how mobile data was processed is included. To the best of our knowledge, data on the subject is vastly lacking, inexistent or hardly accessible to researchers. detection campaigns.  1 Working under the auspices of the \textit{Mundo Sano} Foundation who provided key health expertise on the subject, in this work we discuss the use of CDRs for the analysis of mobility patterns and the detection of possible risk zones of Chagas disease in Latin America. We intend to predict population movements between different regions, providing a proxy for the epidemic spread. The objective is to show that these types of logs are rich in social and individual information to determine whether an individual has lived in an epidemic area. An argentinian and a mexican case study are presented using data provided by telecommunication companies (TelCo) from each country. A discussion of how mobile data was processed is included. To the best of our knowledge, data on the subject is vastly lacking, inexistent or hardly accessible to researchers.