Some 200 migrants in the border municipality of Tapachula received this Friday with protests the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who announced a tour of Central America and Cuba in May to address the causes of the exodus.
Carrying banners and crosses, the migrants marched from a local park, where at least a thousand of them have been stranded for weeks and even months, and went to the outskirts of the military station where the Mexican president offered his traditional daily press conference. .
The contingent shouted slogans like “Justice!” or “Free passage!”, which were heard from inside the room where the president was holding his conference.
Some of them – the majority from nationalities such as Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua – chained themselves as a sign of protest, to demand documents from the authorities that regularize their situation in Mexico and thus be able to advance towards the border with the United States. .
The general coordinator of the National Migration Institute promised to deliver more than 200 visitor cards for humanitarian reasons
And just as it happened a few weeks ago, a dozen migrants from different countries sewed their lips in the middle of public roads as a pressure measure so that the Mexican government attends to them.
In the midst of this protest, the general coordinator of the National Migration Institute (INM), Héctor Martínez Castuera, came out, promising to deliver more than 200 visitor cards for humanitarian reasons to this group of migrants who protested and marched on the outskirts of military installations.
Likewise, he asked people to make a list of 50 people, mainly women and children, to start delivering their documents that same day.
The Mexican authorities have intercepted 73,034 foreigners with an irregular stay in national territory between January 1 and March 8 of this year, according to a recent report by the INM.
Meanwhile, the Mexican president assured this Friday that one of the objectives of his Administration is “that there be work in Central America.”
López Obrador recalled that his government has “programs that are applied in Chiapas,” referring to the so far unsuccessful “Sembrando Vida,” “that are applied in Honduras and El Salvador and Belize,” and that he hopes they will be accepted soon in Guatemala.
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