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Central American migrants traveling with a caravan to the United States travel to Mapastepec, Mexico on Wednesday, October 24, 2018. Thousands of migrants from Central America resumed Wednesday their long-awaited march towards the United States. United States. to travel another 45 miles (more than 1,000 km) still remaining. (Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press)
HUIXTLA, Mexico – Latest news from the caravan of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States (local time):
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The Mexican Federal Police arrested minibuses and abducted people from the caravan of Central American migrants, even though they had paid for their ticket.
The Associated Press reporters saw about half a dozen small buses stopped near the town of Escuintla, in the state of Chiapas, where police blocked the road with their car on Wednesday. A column of other foot migrants walked on foot.
These buses are common intercity transport means in the region.
Driver Johnny Morales Castellanos said that the police had asked him to dismiss the migrants because "the insurance does not cover them because they are foreigners".
The migrants were not arrested, but had to continue the planned walk of the day, traveled 75 km (75 km) – at least if they can not find another route.
It is not immediately clear if this move is part of a broader effort to limit caravan progress.
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Children only appear to represent about 5 to 10% of migrants in a caravan crossing the far south of Mexico. But parents' hope for their future and the fear of what might happen to them at home is clearly a motivating factor behind many people's decision to leave.
Ludin Giron is a street vendor from Choloma, Honduras. She was in a motorcycle taxi designed for two people with her three children, as well as another mother and daughter.
Giron was holding his son Justin on his lap, helped by his 5-year-old daughter Astrid. Nicole, 3 years old, was behind her.
In Honduras, Giron explained that gangs always threaten children: "When they see a pretty girl, they want her for themselves. If they see a boy, they want him to take drugs. "
Refusing one or the other can be deadly.
Next to her, Reyna Esperanza Espinosa, a tortilla maker from Cortes (Honduras), accompanied her 11 year old daughter Elsa Araceli.
Espinosa said there was no work in Honduras and "that's why we decided to come here to give our children a better future".
The caravan left before the dawn of Huixtla, a city located in southern Mexico. The migrants hope to travel another 45 miles Wednesday in the city of Mapastepec.
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