Photo: Daniel Ricardez / EFE
By: EFE
Wednesday, October 2
Migrant caravan in Mexico manages to advance in trucks during a stretch
SANTIAGO NILTEPEC, Mexico – Hundreds of people from the migrant caravan that carries 20 days traveling the south of Mexico en route to the United States this Friday decided to get on trucks to complete the day’s section, exhausted after long hours of walking.
Making great efforts, women and children mainly, they were accommodated between the spaces of the trailers of the trucks, insufficient before the volume of people who wanted to raise.
At least four trucks were used by migrants to advance just over 13 miles (22 kilometers) to La Venta, where they will make a stopover again and then continue their journey during the weekend at the region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
“Let’s go, let’s go,” some migrants shouted for the driver to advance once they were accommodated on the vehicle, because the National Guard was nearby.
Seeing the migrants’ strategy, the National Guard closed the road to prevent the passage of more trucks that could serve as transportation.
Hundreds of migrants choose for stopping in Mexico
In recent days, a total of 800 migrants from the caravan have regularized their situation in the country through the National Institute of Migration (INM) and, as a result, they have left the contingent.
Jeffrey, a Nicaraguan who travels with his mother, wife and two children, told EFE that the sores on his feet no longer let him advance.
“We have come to suffer, but we can no longer return, they promised us the help of the humanitarian visa and hopefully it is true, I had two strokes and I do not want to return to my country,” said the 47 man, who this Friday It was also delivered to Grupo Beta (a support group) of the INM.
Like Jeffrey, this Friday some 20 migrants most beaten by fatigue io and pain of traveling with their children, who in many cases do not exceed five years of age.
The families that go to the agents are transferred to the INM checkpoints in Tapanatepec and La Ventosa, where they are transported by buses to the states of Puebla, Guanajuato and Mexico City, and the authorities promise to regularize their immigration documents, something that some activists have questioned.