San Pedro Sula, Honduras
the first caravan of 2021 departed on Wednesday night from the large San Pedro Sula Metropolitan Bus Station bound for the United States.
About 200 Hondurans, including children, women and whole families from Santa Bárbara, Colom, Cortés and the south of the country, began walking at 8:00 pm along the northern boulevard of San Pedro Sula towards the border checkpoint. of Corinth, border with Guatemala.
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Some of them, mostly young people, argued that they were leaving the country after losing everything during the tropical storms Eta and Iota and not finding work.
Last week began circulating on social media the call for a new caravan that would leave on January 14, but some already had two days to be at the terminal waiting to leave.
U.S. authorities have reiterated that the crossing is dangerous.
The governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico on Monday made a “strong call” to migrants from their countries who intend to travel in caravans to the United States, to avoid exposing unaccompanied and separated children and adolescents, due to the danger of what expose them.
Erick Moncayo, commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service, recalled in the last few hours that caravans of illegal migrants have failed in the past two years.
On the Bravo River, Mexico’s border with the United States, there are hundreds of migrants who have been living for more than a year waiting for President-elect Joe Biden to grant them asylum.
Hurricanes Eta and Iota left severe damage and deaths in Honduras, and the coronavirus pandemic, which keeps the nation financially paralyzed, would be some of the reasons for the pursuit of the American dream.