La Tècnica-Frontera Corozal.- Fearful and in a hurry, hundreds of migrants, including families with children, arrive on the banks of the Usumacinta river to board wooden boats to cross irregularly into Mexican territory by Frontera Corozal, in the municipality of Ocosingo, Considered territory of the Zapatista army of National Liberation (EZLN).
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During a tour of THE UNIVERSAL by the border town the Technique the arrival of several groups of migrants was observed, among them women with minors, some who carried in their arms and others pulled them so as not to lose the step imposed by the chicken coops, who forbid them to talk to anyone.
Migrants traveling on their own walk 164 kilometers along the Lacandona forest heading to the municipality of Palenque, but also the coyotes carry people hidden in three-ton vans or Van type, in which they transit in most cases at night.
Migrants traveling on their own walk 164 km through the Lacandona jungle to Palenque.
“We know the danger”
Grandmother Maria Elena, originally from Santa Barbara, Honduras, travels with her three grandchildren between the ages of five and eight.
In this part of the border, known as The Technique, he took a break while his relatives in the United States send him money to continue his journey to South Carolina, where he hopes to reunite with them.
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The woman, like hundreds of migrants coming mainly from Honduras and El Salvador, he chose to take the jungle route from the department of Petén, Guatemala, to reach the border with Mexico, taking advantage of the poor surveillance of the authorities.
Maria Elena relates that four months ago her daughter died and took care of her three grandchildren, with whom she had to to flee because they tried to kill her.
He laments that there is no job in Honduras and accuses that they have a corrupt ruler linked to drug trafficking and that the country is overwhelmed by gangs that are murdering those who do not pay the “war tax”.
“I hope to find what we don’t have in Honduras, I will fight for my grandchildren to have a better future,” the woman points out.
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Maria Elena says she is aware of the dangers on the road, but has no choice: “We all know the danger we are in, but we must take it from God, he is the one who decides whether we will be able to move to the United States or not.”