Edgar H. Clemente
Correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, October 19, 2025, p. 6
Tapachula, Chis., A group of about 300 migrants from the Caravan for Freedom left Chiapas yesterday to enter the state of Oaxaca, in order to reach the center of the country, security sources reported.
The foreigners completed 18 days of exhausting walks – since they left Tapachula on October 1 – under temperatures above 30 degrees characteristic of the region and, at times, under the intense rains of the season.
The group that continued along the Pacific route arrived on Thursday in the municipality of Arriaga after rejecting the offer of the National Migration Institute (INM) to be transferred to Veracruz, a proposal to which about 300 people agreed.
Other migrants who in previous days accepted the INM’s offer and were taken to Tapachula, received a visa for humanitarian reasons and managed to reach Mexico City.
“From Pijijiapan they returned us to Tapachula and they gave us the visa. We took a bus, the cheapest one, and we arrived in Mexico City; the trip took 20 hours,” said Honduran Edgardo Medina by telephone.
The man who is traveling with his wife and a one-year-old baby commented that they decided to accept the authorities’ suggestion, because the little girl became ill and was diagnosed with anemia at a clinic in Pijijiapan.
Now that they are in Mexico City they will seek to get treatment, some work and establish themselves to have a better quality of life. The couple fled Central America due to threats from gangs.
The migrant caravan, the sixteenth in a year, left the southern border with the argument of lack of stay conditions – no job offers and very low salaries – to wait long months for the response to their procedures before the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees.
Unlike previous exoduses, now they do not intend american dream due to the tightening of the measures of the United States government that has included the reinforcement of the border with Mexico, as well as mass raids and deportations.
