Guatemala City.
The Government of Guatemala assured this Tuesday that he is preparing an inter-institutional strategic plan in the face of the attempt to arrive in the country next week. migrant caravans from Honduras and which is addressed to United States in search of the American dream.
The Guatemalan Institute of Migration has announced in a press release that the plan seeks the “Containment, control, care and humanitarian assistance” from caravan, the date of arrival would be approximately the January 15, dand agreement to the authorities.
The migration entity has stressed that people seeking to enter the country come from Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua are required to file a PCR test O covid-19 negative antigen and one passport O identity document in force.
“People who do not submit thes migratory requirements they will not be admitted, “the Guatemalan Institute of Migration. Lauthorities noted that they seek to promote a ” regular, orderly and secure migration “, Emphasized the statement.
Insecurity, pandemic and lack of employment
At the beginning of last October, several caravans compuestas per entre 2,000 and 3,000 migrants they came out of Honduras with course a United States, But a large percentage were arrested in Guatemala for the security forces and returned to their country.
Last December, another group of hundreds of Hondurans organized a new caravan bound for the US since San Pedro Sula, north of Honduras, adducing the lack of employment after the devastating damage left by the tropical storms And it’s Iota.
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However, migrants will disperse pel Guatemalan territory and in some cases they were too returned to their home country.
thes Hondurans trying to get out to caravan with the idea of reaching United States argue that they are leaving their territory for violence ilin the absence of employment, scourges that have been exacerbated by the crisis caused by the covid-19 pandemic and meteorological phenomena such as And it’s Iota.
One of the most crowded caravans was the first of its kind that came out on October 13, 2018 with more than 4,000 people. EFE