POPTUN, Guatemala – In the early hours of Saturday morning, a large number of Honduran migrants who entered Guatemala this week registering were transported by bus back to their country’s border through the government after encountering a huge obstacle on the road.
At five o’clock on Saturday morning, none of the approximately 1,000 migrants were stranded through the police and remained along a rural road. Police said hours earlier, migrants had boarded army buses and trucks to be taken back to the border.
Small teams of less than 10 migrants may still be discovered walking down the road before the barricade on Saturday morning.
Olvin Suazo, 21, walking with 3 friends, all from Santa Barbara, Honduras.
“We will continue, ” he said. ” We were resting and the biggest organization continued. We didn’t know what had happened to them.
The four, all twenty-five, are agricultural workers, learning about the caravan that was formed this week in San Pedro Sula by WhatsApp and Facebook.
On Friday night, many migrants heading to the United States were desperate after colliding with the retainer.
Rarely since 2018 had the customers of a caravan of migrants been so daunting, the president of Guatemala considered them a threat of contagion amid the coronavirus pandemic and promised to expel them. U. S. election and new tropical typhoon Gamma has threatened to liquidate torrential rains in the planned direction through southern Mexico.
On Friday, more than a hundred Guatemalan infantrymen and police blocked migrants, who were frustrated by the lack of food and movement after leaving Honduras this week.
The voices of the migrants sounded on the rural road, it is not easy for the government to leave them or supply them with food.
At nightfall, Honduran migrant Paola Daaz placed a blanket on the side of the road and put pajamas on her children, four- and six-year-olds, hoping they could get some sleep.
She said she had to join the caravan with her husband, Away Vasquez, 23, because what she earned as a mechanic was no longer enough to buy food for the children.
Guatemala’s immigration government said a component of the initial organization of some 2,000 migrants had agreed to return to Honduras. The others had been divided into two routes: some went north of Petén, where the retainer was located, and others walked, hitchhiking took buses west to the capital, Guatemala City.
Honduran Fernando Sabión, 20, walked shirtlessly along the northern road, with Angel, a 4-month-old baby, in his arms. The child is not hers, but Sabion helps the baby’s mother, Madelin, take a walk in the tropical heat.
“I’m going to pass (to the north) because I need to meet my father. He’s in the United States,” Sabion. Se when I was a baby, and I need to stop by and get a job in construction.
Some had hitchhiked in passing trucks. Wilmer Chavez, 35, climbed into the box of a truck in his wheelchair with other Honduran migrants.
In Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador warned Friday that the approximately 2,000 migrants who had left San Pedro Sula, Honduras, could possibly have settled with American politicians in mind.
“I think it has to do with elections in America,” Obrador said. “I don’t have all the elements, yet there are indications that it was formed for that purpose. I don’t know who it benefits from, but we’re not here. “naive. “
The new organization is reminiscent of a migrant caravan that was formed two years ago before the mid-term elections in the United States and has a hot topic in the campaign, which fuels anti-immigrant rhetoric.
But on Friday, Mexican leader on the coronavirus pandemic, Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell, gave the impression of being more conciliatory, saying that migrants did not pose a risk to physical fitness and that Mexico is “morally, legally and politically obliged to help them. “
On Thursday, Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei promised migrants to return to Honduras, raising efforts to involve the pandemic.
Caravans of Central American migrants have gained popularity in recent years, offering a certain degree of security in number and allowing those who do not pay a trafficker to attempt the adventure to the United States.
At first, they gained benefits from the communities they crossed, especially in southern Mexico. Last year, however, U. S. President Donald Trump threatened to paralyze Mexican import price lists if it did not slow the flow of migrants to the U. S. border. deploy the National Guard and more immigration officials to intercept giant teams of migrants.
The last attempt at caravan dismantled through Mexican guards in January.
This week, Mexico warned that it will implement its immigration legislation and prosecute even those who knowingly endanger public health.
The United States has necessarily closed its border to legal immigration and entering illegally is more complicated than ever.
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Associated Press Christopher Sherman in Mexico City contributed to the report.
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