Thousands of Honduran migrants resumed their long march to the United States after a day of rest in the southern Mexican town of Westla on a journey that has caused great tension after US President Donald Trump described the convoy as an "attack" on the country. Of Hondurans on Sunday left Honduras on foot from Guatemala towards the Mexican border.
Two days later in Mexican territory, migrants in the small town of Chiapas, 70 km from the southern border with Guatemala, stopped for rest. It was the first break for most of them since they left northern Honduras on October 13, cutting 800 kilometers, while they still have 3,000 kilometers to reach the US border.
Migrants, including women and children, spent the day before yesterday in churches or lying on the ground in a city park and sports stadium.
A member of the non-governmental organization Peoples Without Borders, accompanying the 7,000-strong convoy of mostly Honduran citizens, Rodrigo Abeja, said residents provided blankets, baby and coffee supplies. "We followed the situation," said a nurse at a medical center in a park. For eight pregnant women.
Some of those fleeing violence and misery in their country were able to move quickly after boarding trucks, minibuses or motorcycles, but some also died during the flight. Honduras announced the death of two of its nationals, one of them in Guatemala after falling from a truck , And the other in Mexico.
US Vice President Mike Bens said yesterday that Venezuelan "leftist" organizations funded by Venezuela were behind the "convoy" of immigrants, repeating Trump's remarks, which he said was "an attack on our country." He declared three days ago that he had informed the army and border guards about The "national emergency" and waved the terrorist threat, saying that "Middle Easterners" had ducked into the "convoy" as well as members of the violent criminal SS-13 gang.
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez promised jobs for citizens who left the convoy if they returned to the country and offered a $ 27 million plan for a "safe return" of migrants, including subsidies and agricultural projects, work in public workshops and loans And educational grants.