This Tuesday, the caravanners, who call it the “exodus from poverty”, begin their third day of the journey and, by last night, have covered more than 30 kilometers and walked an average of seven hours a day, because there are none in the southeastern area In the rest of Mexico it is extremely cold, and the sun punishes it with temperatures of up to 30 degrees Celsius.
The problem is not only how many kilometers you have to walk and in the heat, but also that you are traveling with a lot of belongings, suitcases full of clothes to wear and sleep in, and even uncomfortable bags for tents.
The testimonies collected in newspapers such as La Jornada are moving. This is the case, for example, of the Honduran Bertha del Cid, who says that it is too difficult, very difficult, to walk like that with a suitcase and a three-year-old asthmatic child that she carries in a stroller.
The people in the caravan don't have much hope that arrangements will be made to help them at a high-level meeting tomorrow led by Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Rather, they are afraid, knowing that President Joe Biden is under intense pressure from Republican caucuses in both chambers to toughen his anti-migrant measures in exchange for more weapons and financial support for Ukraine to fight the war with Russia to continue.
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