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The Caravan of Central American Migrants in Tapachula, Mexico, October 22, 2018. REUTERS / Ueslei Marcelino
In Mexico, the caravan of Central American migrants continues on its way. At a staggering 40 kilometers per day, more than 7,000 Central American migrants, most of them women and children, are trying to reach the United States.
With our correspondent from Tapachula, Alix Hardy
They have been walking for more than ten days despite the hot sun
and the lack of water and food. Migrants have only one goal in mind: to join the United States to find a better life. " Until now, I've never been out of Honduras. I want to keep going, but I do not know how long I will hold. My mission is really to get to the border, "says José Lopez.
Most come from Honduras, where they flee violence and misery. " Social security no longer provides any medicine. I have a baccalaureate which is useless because I can not find work. The current situation in Honduras is really difficult. Our children are starving. We do not leave by will, it is the situation that requires us! Exclaims Sindy, a 22-year-old mother.
The caravan now has more than 7,000 people. Walking together is to escape the smugglers, criminal groups and authorities by blocking. In the front row of the caravan, Wilmel, 25, is determined: " We are a family, a united group. If they capture one, we'll have to capture all of them, because we're all walking north together. "
A second caravan of 1,500 migrants has left Honduras for a few days. She intends to follow in the footsteps of the first group.