A Honduran migrant dies while trying to enter Mexico

Tepanatepec, Mexico.- Several thousand migrants from Central America had planned to summarize their visit to southern Mexico, while the authorities of that country and Guatemala were trying to shed light on the death of a migrant Sunday at the border between the two.

While the migrant caravan was resting and reorganizing itself at Tepanatepec, in the state of Oaxaca, several hundred others were demolishing the border barriers in the Guatemalan town of Tecún Umán, of the same way that the members of the caravan did it more than a week ago. and they clashed with the Mexican authorities, who were determined not to let the caravan grow or to have another caravan.

The new group of migrants, who claim to be a second caravan, reunited on the international bridge spanning the Suchiate River. Guatemalan firefighters confirmed that Henry Diaz, a 26-year-old Honduran migrant, died of a rubber bullet to his head.

"The migrant was treated by firefighters but the injury was very big," said Cesar Quiñonez, firefighter in Tecún Umán.

At a press conference Sunday night, Mexican Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete Prida said the Mexican Federal Police and immigration officials had been assaulted with rocks, glass bottles and glass. fireworks when migrants knocked down a door. Mexican border. He said that no Mexican agents were armed with guns, not even a gun firing rubber bullets.

Some of the attackers also carried firearms and incendiary bombs, Navarrete said.

"In Mexico, undocumented immigration is not criminalized," he said.

Some 300 Salvadorans also left San Salvador Sunday in the hope of reaching the United States together.

In the meantime, some of the first caravan's migrants, numbering around 4,000, were resting in the shade of awnings hanging in the town square or collecting garbage in Tepanatepec, which has 7,500 inhabitants. Others went to cool the nearby Novillero River.

The tension caused by the long walk in unbearable heat, with little rations of food and other provisions, worsened on Saturday night when a fight over food resulted in a beating. In the caravan, many people have been walking for more than two weeks since the formation of the group in the city of San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

Raúl Medina Meléndez, chief of security of the small municipality of Tepanatepec in Oaxaca, said the city was distributing sandwiches and water in a migrant camp on the central square Saturday night when a man with a megaphone asked people to wait in your turn

Some people insulted him and then attacked him, Medina said. Police rescued the man while he was beaten and taken to hospital for treatment. We do not know what was his state of health.

Several people in the caravan used microphones on Sunday to denounce the attack. Others complained that some people smoked marijuana and that images of garbage and uncooked food left by migrants in their way seemed disrespectful.

The group planned to leave early Monday morning for Niltepec, 54 kilometers northwest of Oaxaca.

The caravan has yet to travel 1,600 kilometers to reach the nearest border crossing point in McAllen, Texas. The trip could be twice as long if the migrants decided to go to the Tijuana-San Diego crossing as a similar caravan did at the beginning of the year. About 200 people from this smaller group have reached the border.

Most of the migrants in the caravan seem determined to reach the United States, despite the fact that Mexico has offered them refuge.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Friday launched a program called "It's Your Home", which offers shelter, medical care, access to schools and jobs for Central Americans willing to stay in border states with the United States. United.

Navarrete Prida said Sunday that temporary identity numbers had been assigned to more than 300 migrants, allowing them to stay and work in Mexico. Participants in the program include pregnant women, children and the elderly. They are now treated in shelters, he added.

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