Edgar H. Clemente and Rubén Villalpando
Correspondents
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, December 14, 2024, p. 4
The migrant caravan of the pilgrimagewhich left the southern border on Thursday, decided to advance at night to avoid the high temperatures of the day, above 32 degrees Celsius in the region, its members reported.
When it got dark, the undocumented immigrants resumed their journey from Huehuetán, Chiapas, where they made their first stopover, and arrived in Huixtla around 3 hours yesterday. They would follow the same plan last night to reach the next point in the municipality of Escuintla, explained the members of the exodus.
We decided to continue in the early morning because it is cooler; The asphalt is no longer hot and especially because there are many women and children; so they don’t suffocate from the heat
said Venezuelan Manuel Fernández.
The foreigners asked for support from the security authorities to have patrols to accompany them and to contain vehicular traffic to avoid an accident.
The teenager Jeison García, from Venezuela, undertook the journey in search of reuniting with his mother, who is in the United States, and both of them to be able to support the family that remains in the South American country.
I want to go with my mother, meet my aunt and work for a new future, because I plan to return to Venezuela
said the young man, barely 18 years old.
This is the eighth caravan to leave the southern border in less than three months. In October three groups left, in November another three and in December there are two.
A group of 13 migrants who had been deprived of their liberty for 14 days in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, were rescued yesterday by elements of the municipal police and the National Guard after receiving a 911 call for help from one of the kidnapped people who managed to escape in an oversight by criminals.
According to the report, nine of those kidnapped are of Guatemalan origin and four are Mexican: all of them were forced to ask their relatives for ransom under threat of death.
During the early hours of Friday, local and federal security forces implemented the operation to find the safe house, which was closed with padlocks and bars. There they located 13 foreigners who had not eaten during the entire confinement period.
They were all in poor health so they were taken to the municipal corporation, where they were given food, clean clothes, hot drinks and were examined by doctors.
