Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Migrants from Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador gathered on 12 October to meet at San Pedro Sula, the second largest city in Honduras. The caravan began the next day, intending to reach the United States to flee from violence, poverty, and political repression. [33] [34] The caravan began with about 160 migrants but quickly ...
A caravan of some 500 migrants that departed northern Honduras in hopes of reaching the United States dissolved Sunday after crossing the border into Guatemala, the Guatemalan Migration Institute ...
A new migrant caravan has formed in one of Central America’s most violent cities. Hundreds of people on Wednesday left San Pedro Sula in Honduras with the aim of reaching the U.S. border. Juan ...
Some 500 Honduran migrants in a caravan departed Saturday before dawn from the northern city of San Pedro Sula in hopes of reaching the United States. It was the first such group since January ...
He began organizing migrants in 1999. Beginning in 2013, he served as a deputy in the National Congress of Honduras, for Libertad y Refundación (LIBRE, or Liberty and Refoundation). [2] Fuentes helped organize a migrant caravan in April 2018. On October 16, as a later caravan entered Guatemala, Fuentes was arrested and returned to Honduras.
A group of Honduran migrants entered southern Mexico on Friday, joining more than 1,000 people who departed Central America in recent days headed to the United States and putting to the test ...
Both nations have also agreed to combat the presence of Mexican cartels operating in Honduras. [6] In 2018, several hundreds to a few thousands Hondurans formed part of the Central American migrant caravans and traversed all of Mexico to the northern city of Tijuana to request asylum in the United States. [7]
Migrant caravans began forming in 2018, and they became a final, desperate hope for poorer migrants who do not have the money to pay smugglers. If migrants try to cross Mexico alone or in small groups, they are often either detained by authorities and sent back to southern Mexico, or worse, deported back to their home countries.