Caravan of migrants.
Some try to get over the wall in Tijuana
Caravan of Central American migrants on the US-Mexico border.
Now all that remains is to climb over the wall!
That river of migrants marching north: the caravan breaks through the borders of Mexico
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02 October 2020Not even the coronavirus pandemic has held back the march of the 3,000 Honduran migrants, who have crossed the border between Honduras and Guatemala in the hope of reaching the United States of America.
The police and the military who first tried to obstruct the human caravan, at the border post of Corinth, after a few hours succumbed to the pressure of the migrants huddled together with the cry of "out of JOH", named after the Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández.
The control of identity documents was enough to cross the land border, which reopened after six months of medical blockade.
Like other caravans, migrants complain of unemployment, lack of education and health services and of the violence of local gangs that plague the most populous areas of Guatemela.
According to the Honduran Red Cross, which provides assistance to migrants, 1,200 people left in a first group, followed a few hours later by another two thousand.
Most of them are young men and there are few women with children.
Since January, the month of the last departure of about two thousand people, no appeal launched on social networks for a new migration had been successful, in particular due to the restrictions and risks associated with the coronavirus health crisis.
The phenomenon of mass displacements has been documented for some years.
Thousands of Central American citizens move in large groups with the aim of reaching and crossing the US border.
On the other hand, pressures and threats of retaliation by US President Donald Trump have sparked reactions from neighboring countries.
Mexico in particular has deployed some 26,000 troops on the country's southern and northern borders.