Tapachula, Mexico (EFE).- A new caravan of about 1,000 migrants left the early hours of this Saturday from tapachulain the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, hoping to make progress on his way to the United States.
Without money, without papers and with the threat that they could be deported, hundreds of Ecuadorian, Venezuelan, Honduran, Guatemalan, Salvadoran, Colombian and Nicaraguan migrants decided to leave in a caravan to join the first contingent that left this same place on the 28th of February.
Despite the risk that walking along Mexican highways represents, the migrants set out on the road when they saw that the first contingent was not stopped by the authorities mexican.
This caravan was joined by 40-year-old Jaime Israel Curri, originally from Honduras, who suffered the amputation of his left leg in 2009, after getting on the train in Ixtepec, Oaxaca.
This migrant narrated that in that incident he had not slept for four days and fatigue caused him to fall in a mountainous area near Tierra Blanca, Veracruz.
“I got under the tracks and the beast ran over me. The train had not done anything to me, rather it was the last wagon that broke my leg, what I did was leave the mountain from where I fell and put on a tourniquet, to continue walking, ”he shared.
Once in Tapachula, he was amputated and fitted with a prosthesis, but he was returned to his country.
Despite the fact that the prosthesis makes it difficult for him to walk, that has not stopped him, since he is homeless in Honduras and has to support his five children and his wife, which has led him to migrate again.
This is the fourth time that he has left Honduras and arrived in Tapachula, seeking to cross national territory, but three days ago he found out that the caravans had begun to leave and at the last minute he set out on the road.
Juan Sebastián González, originally from Venezuela, said that he joined this group because he ran out of money, since the little he had left was stolen at checkpoints and he had no other option.
He said that, for example, in Venezuela they do not have a decent salary, so they have to sell their homes, their things, and some people live off robberies and extortion to survive, which is why that country has become “corrupt.” ”.
Shouting “Yes, we can!” and “We’re going” the migrants passed the first checkpoint located in the Ejido Viva México, where they were only recorded by an immigration agent and continued their march.
The region is experiencing a record migratory flow, with 2.76 million undocumented people apprehended at the US border with Mexico in fiscal year 2022.
The authorities of those two countries deported more than 196,300 Central American citizens in 2022, including more than 35,000 children and adolescents, according to a report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). EFE
