{"id":160057,"date":"2022-01-16T15:13:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T07:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=160057"},"modified":"2022-01-16T15:13:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T07:13:49","slug":"inside-a-migrant-caravan-leaving-honduras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=160057","title":{"rendered":"Inside a migrant caravan leaving Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2022\/01\/16\/image-38939-1642305294.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 SAN PEDRO SULA (Honduras), Jan 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Hundreds of men, women and children gathered early Saturday morning in the parking lot of San Pedro Sula&#8217;s main transit hub, on the edge of the northern Honduran city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Before the sun rose, many had already departed on foot, carrying the few belongings they had in backpacks or bags towards Corinto, a small Honduran border town on the other side of the mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 While their final destination is the United States, their main goal is &#8220;a better future for their family,&#8221; said a Nicaraguan who provided only his first name, Ovaldo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 He was accompanied by about 500 other migrants, originally from a variety of countries including Honduras, Haiti, Venezuela and Nicaragua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Some had even crossed the ocean from Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 They will join a nearly endless flow of other migrants attempting to cross into Guatemala, then Mexico and ultimately the United States &#8212; which most will not manage to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 At the Corinto border crossing, the group had arrived all together but broke into smaller groups to go through Guatemalan immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Those who were missing identification or proof of a negative Covid-19 test  were sent back into Honduras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 For migrants who do make it past, they will still have more than 2,000 kilometers until the US border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 The last caravan to leave San Pedro Sula was in January 2021, and contained about 7,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 It was broken up in Guatemala, when hundreds of soldiers attacked the migrants with sticks and tear gas, forcing them to return back to Honduras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Migrants in Saturday&#8217;s caravan said they were risking the dangerous journey for multiple reasons: to escape violence from drug traffickers and gangs, but also to start anew after natural disasters such floods and droughts upended their lives. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 SAN PEDRO SULA (Honduras), Jan 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Hundreds of men, women and children gathered early Saturday morning in the parking lot of San Pedro Sula&#8217;s main transit hub, on the edge of the northern Honduran city. \u00a0\u00a0 Before the sun rose, many had already departed on foot, carrying the few belongings they had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":160060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160057"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}