The second caravan of migrants crosses the Suchiate River on foot and is intercepted in Mexico | News from El Salvador



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The second caravan of migrants, mainly Hondurans, today walked across the shallow end of the Suchiate River, which separates Guatemala from Mexico, in order to continue its journey to the United States.

The human tide, made up of hundreds of women, men and children, crossed this current, water up to the neck, while the Mexican police were standing on the shore .

This is a second caravan of migrants, After October 13, another group came out of San Pedro Sula (Honduras), formed of about 7,000 people, which has crossed the Mexican territory to go to the United States after crossing Guatemala.

To cope with the current of this river, migrants were holding hands in a human chain, while a helicopter of the Federal Forces of Mexico was flying over the river at low altitude and caused heavy gusts of rain.

"Yes, you can," they chanted as they crossed the stream.

This second caravan tried Sunday to cross Mexico to cross the border bridge, Rodolfo Robles, but the Mexican forces prevented them. They were fired with tear gas and the migrants responded with stones and sticks, which provoked a confrontation of several hours which resulted in death and several wounded.

A first caravan of migrants consisting of about 7,000 people left on October 13 from San Pedro Sula (Honduras) in the United States and a large part of them pbad through currently Mexico, after pbading through Guatemala.

Another group of Salvadorans, also seeking to reach American soil, is currently crossing southern Guatemala.

The American President, Donald Trump adopted a very harsh position, threatening the army with death to the border and badured that it would cut "substantially" the economic aid it granted to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in retaliation for the progress of migrants, while reproaching Mexico for not stopping it.

That same Monday, he warned the migrant caravan that the armed forces "were waiting for them" in what he considered an "invasion" and insisted "that many gang members and a few Very nasty people "are part of the migrants, without offering details about it.

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