By EFE
29 Oct 2023, 18:36 PM EDT
Migrants stranded in the Mexican city of Tapachula, border with Guatemalalaunched a call to the Government of Mexico in which they said they were willing to travel to Acapulco, a destination hit by the Hurricane Otis and whose passage has so far left 43 dead and 36 missing, to be employed as workers in the reconstruction of the affected municipalities in the state of Guerrero.
The hundreds of migrants from countries like Colombia, Venezuela and Nicaragua showed their solidarity with the people of Mexico and in a meeting called by the People Without Borders organization They were ready to travel to the destroyed areas and offered “their manpower, effort, will and faith.”
Among the migrants there are bricklayers, foremen, technicians, welders, mechanics and farmers who, they said, can be useful at this time for the town of Guerrerowhich has suffered the onslaught of the hurricane that left human and material losses.
The offer came in the middle of a intense rain in Tapachula caused by a tropical depression formed on Saturday afternoon in the Pacific. At night the migrants held a vigil with prayers, candles and cards to show solidarity with the inhabitants of the Warrior status.
The migrants carried out a kind of registration to enlist and wait for the G’s decision.mexican government whether he agrees to transfer them from Tapachula to the state of Guerrero to start working.
The Guatemalan migrant Yuris Yosaira Pastrano, who is in Tapachulasaid that given the opportunity to leave to go to Acapulco She is willing to go to work and help the people of Mexico rebuild or whatever they are asked to do.
“You have to go to work and support Acapulco”There is the opportunity and we are going to support them, to show solidarity, to help them, because honestly here we are not doing anything, while they need our help, whatever they have us build, clean, exactly help, we are willing to do it,” he told EFE. .
The woman, who was a merchant in Hondurasasked the Mexican Government to provide them with what they needed: Food, a roof and a document to be able to be in that state momentarily and then continue on their way to the United States.
Meanwhile, Gerson Linares, a migrant from Guatemala, who is in Tapachula waiting to leave in a caravan on Monday, he indicated that he can join the group of migrants willing to help in the state of Guerrero.
Linares momentarily changed his idea of going to the northern border to help because he remembered that these disasters have happened in his country on several occasions.
“We have to help, Acapulco is very affected and this has also happened in my country and we have received help and the difference is that we are of different nationalities, but we are willing to support them. There are children and people suffering, we are humble people, we are suffering and we need the opportunity. We are going in the caravan, but we have the strength to go and help,” she said.
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