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A caravan of migrants which came out on Saturday Honduras towards U.Sdisintegrated upon reaching Guatemalaalthough a small group continues its journey, an official source announced this Sunday.
“The movement of people disintegrated“, he told AFP Alejandra Menaspokesperson for Guatemala Migration Institute.
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The previous day, Mena had reported that the Guatemalan police had detained in the eastern department of Izabalclose to the border with Hondurasto around 200 migrants who entered the country with the intention of going to U.S.
Now, according to the official, around 80 people have managed to advance in small groups because they have immigration authorization to travel. Guatemalawhile the rest had to return to Honduras.
An initial caravan of more than 500 people, mainly Venezuelans, left this country on Saturday.
According to local media, the migrants left the Honduran city of Saint Peter Sulain the north of the country, heading to the Guatemalan city of Brownon the border with Honduras.
According to Mena, this was the first caravan of migrants that left Honduras bound for Guatemala in 2024.
“This is a mixed migratory flow made up of migrants of different nationalities“, he detailed on Saturday on X, formerly Twitter, Allan Alvarengaexecutive director of the National Migration Institute of Honduras.
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Since 2018 the migrants Hondurans form caravans of thousands of people to try to cross Guatemala and Mexico going to the United States.
These groups are generally joined by other migrants arriving from South America and who also seek the so-called “American dream”.
Some crossed the inhospitable Panamanian jungle Darienon the border with Colombiaa route along which, crushed by poverty and violence in their countries, more than half a million migrants will travel in 2023.
Source: Elcomercio
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