SANT PERE SULA, HODNURAS.- A large group of people left this Wednesday night from the Grand Terminal of San Pedro Sula, northern part of Honduras, bound for United States at first migrant caravan of 2021.
Children, women and men began the long journey that was convened several weeks ago through social media.
The departure was scheduled for Friday, January 15, however, the compatriots embarked on the hard journey that night to the United States.
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“I don’t have a chance to work, nothing. Nothing is done here. I’ve fought hard enough, my children have cost me only, I’m a single mother,” said one of the migrants, who travels with her children. two children aged 11 and 6 years.
Since last December, several calls have gone viral via social media to integrate the “caravan of January 15, 2021” that would depart from the country’s industrial city. This has been the starting point of more than a dozen caravans, since the first organized in October 2018 which brought together more than 3,000 people.
warn controls
Faced with the mass displacement of migrants, the governments of Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico they began to enlist.
Delegations from the three countries on Monday made a tour of the border point of Corinth, about 200 kilometers north of Tegucigalpa, “with the aim of determining actions to address the caravan in a comprehensive manner,” said a statement from the Guatemalan representation.
“Priority is given to the care of unaccompanied migrant children, as well as vulnerable groups,” by respecting the human rights of caravan members, he added.
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