The caravan set off from southern Mexico toward the United States on Sunday. There are people of 24 nationalities, of which 3,000 are children under 14. The group also includes pregnant women, people with special needs and older adults.
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On the eve of the visit of a delegation from USA To address the migration crisis, a caravan of more than 10,000 migrants left the southern border on Sunday Mexico in the middle of Christmas Eve to put pressure on both governments.
The thousands of migrants 24 nationalities They walked from the border town Tapachulain the southern Mexican state Chiapasearly Sunday morning, and they dared to walk to Álvaro Obregón, where they will spend a complicated Christmas.
The migrants they are coming mainly from Central America, Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Nicaragua, Africa and Asia.
According to Luis Rey García Villagrán, director of the Center for Human Dignity (CDH), this caravan represents that biggest exodus this year and could surpass 15,000 people, They will walk for as many days as possible to reach Mexico City at their first point. “Today we are the poorest of the poorest of those who are at the height of need, those of us who have no money to pay for visas or polleros,” Villagrán said.
Villagrán explained that they estimate that the caravan consists of almost 10,000 people, including more than 3,000 of them are children under 14 years old. There are also pregnant womanpeople with special needs And older adults. “We'll roughly walk 6,500 people In high level of vulnerability“, Add.
“Really The option is on foot“I rely on the caravan because there we feel safer with Latin American brothers who set out with a new dream and a hope for life,” Venezuelan migrant Jesús Silva told EFE agency.
The caravan traveled about four hours on foot Tapachula to the ejido Alvaro Obregonwhere its members spend Christmas under trees, in the undergrowth, on cardboard, on mats and sheets that they take with them on their journey USA.