A caravan of at least 900 migrants accumulated in Honduras to start a 2,000-kilometre march to the United States, a few weeks after neighboring Guatemala reopened its borders after months of restrictions to block the coronavirus.
Hondurans began marching Wednesday night in the northwestern city of San Pedro Sula, testing a well-marked migration direction now at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Calls for a new migrant caravan from San Pedro Sula bus station on October 1 had been circulating on social media for weeks.
The caravan arrives just two weeks after Guatemala reopened its borders after keeping them sealed for months to curb COVID-19.
But most of the migrants accumulated on Wednesday made the decision not to wait until October and left in the dark of night with backpacks and masks.
Hundreds of Hondurans set out on foot and tested the COVID-19 pandemic to pursue the dream of receiving asylum in the United States. An estimated 900 other people left the city of San Pedro Sula on Wednesday night towards the border with Guatemala
Hundreds of migrants have begun marching from northwestern Honduras, the city of San Pedro Sula to the Border with Guatemala, challenging a well-defined migration direction now in times of coronavirus outbreak.
A de San Pedro Sula, Honduras, pushes a stroller as she and many other migrants left their homes and headed to Guatemala, where they hope to cross into Mexico before heading to the southern border of the United States in search of asylum.
Motorists caught up in traffic reported that teams temporarily dispersed along the road with hot rides while others continued to walk towards the Guatemalan border.
At the end of Wednesday, Guatemala’s immigration firm said in a statement that its Honduran counterpart estimated that 900 migrants were in choloma city and were heading to the Corinthian border crossing.
Governments in the region said they were watching on Wednesday.
Mexico’s National Migration Institute said in a statement that it would impose a “safe, orderly and legal” migration and that it would do nothing to announce the formation of a caravan of migrants.
The U. S. embassy in Honduras said Wednesday via Twitter that migration to the United States is now more complicated than ever and more damaging due to the coronavirus outbreak.
But the points that propelled Central American migrants didn’t really diminish the pandemic: the lack of work and the struggle of families to put food on the table have only worsened.
Despite the risk of the fatal COVID-19 pandemic, an estimated 900 other people formed a caravan in Honduras on Wednesday night and traveled to Guatemala for the purpose of entering the neighboring Central American country and entering Mexico before heading north to the U. S. border. seek asylum.
A circle of Honduran relatives walks in northwestern Honduras, the city of San Pedro Sula on Wednesday night with a caravan of about 900 migrants.
The United Nations International Labour Organization said Wednesday that at least 34 million jobs have been lost in Latin America due to the coronavirus pandemic. The ILO ranks Latin America and the Caribbean as the most affected region in the world in terms of lost working hours. 20. 9% in the first 3 quarters of the year.
The flow of American migrants from Central America significantly slowed the pandemic, and countries in the region ended their borders.
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