The second caravan is trying to enter Mexico; migrant dies in the attempt

"Let us in! Let us in!" Desperately yells about 2,000 migrants from Honduras and El Salvador, who clashed violently Federal Police and agents National Institute of Migration in his attempt to move to Mexico.

The balance: 10 injured and a young Honduran killed following a rubber bullet from Mexico or a stone thrown by his own travel companions, versions that the secret of their family could not confirm or deny.

Yesterday, around noon, the migrants gathered at the entrance to the Rodolfo Robles border bridge. They found a yellow fence three meters high, which marks the limit of Guatemalan territory.

In front of the fence, dozens of police officers from this country armed with riot gear blocked their passage. Migrants, mainly young men, clashed with men in uniform, throwing stones and sticks and pushing the fence to open it.

The uniformed Guatemalan responded by throwing tear gas. However, according to the Ministry of the Interior of Guatemala, the migrants placed "minors in front line, near the door", so he chose to let them pass.

The migrants then crossed the border bridge to the entrance of Mexico.

"I do not cover my face, I'm not a criminal, let us pass you by," cried some of the Central Americans who arrived at Mexico's front door, after knocking over one of the bars. were confined by metal fences placed by the Mexican government .. Behind them, the anti-riot team of the federal police maintained a seat of three rows at least.

During this second clash, several migrants were intoxicated, some were beaten and one of them died.

According to the version of their relatives, it is Henry Adalid Díaz Reyes, 26, from Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Until now, migrants from Central America were on the border bridge.

They have also not been able to cross the Suchiate River, swim or raft, as the Department of the Navy, the Federal Police and the National Institute of Migration (NMI) are monitoring the area. Tributary, with its boats, and the bank with riot gear. .

The continuing exodus

The caravan of migrants who entered Mexico on October 20 adds another that is contained in the border town of Tecún Umán, which is faced by the police of both countries; about two thousand people according to estimates.

But on Sunday, about 200 people from San Salvador left their country destined to United States, in a third caravan. They hope on the way they are added more.

In addition to the risks inherent in this exodus, migrants are now facing a hardening of borders between Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico.

From this first caravan, while some continue on the same road as the one in Oaxaca, four thousand others have returned voluntarily to their country, informed an official source in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.