Hundreds of people, mostly Venezuelans, left on foot on Saturday Honduras towards Guatemala, in the first caravan migrants wants to achieve that by 2024 USA from the Central American country, authorities said.

“The movement is 500 to 600 people Roughly the majority are Venezuelans,” Alejandra Mena, spokesperson for the Guatemalan Migration Institute, told AFP.

Mena also stated that this is the first migrant caravan that will attempt to cross the border with Guatemala so far this year.

A group of migrants in Honduras prepare to form the caravan. EFE/Jose Valle

According to local media, the caravan left on foot from a bus station in San Pedro Sula, where they had gathered the day before.

From that city in northern Honduras, the migrants, including women with young children, move to Corinto, a city on the border with Guatemala.

“It concerns a mixed migration flow consisting of migrants of different nationalities“, wrote on X, former Twitter, Allan Alvarenga, executive director of the National Migration Institute of Honduras.

Since 2028, Honduran migrants have formed caravans of thousands of people in an attempt to cross Guatemala and Mexico towards the United States.

These groups are usually accompanied by other migrantsmainly Venezuelans, who come from South America and are also looking for the so-called ‘American dream’.

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Some have crossed the inhospitable Panamanian jungle Darienat the border with Colombia, a route through which more than half a million migrants passed through in 2023, suffering from poverty, violence and lack of opportunities in their country.

However, the last few times they have attempted to enter Guatemala they have been repressed by police.

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“Five times I left because there is no work, I have to find a life there,” Honduran Wilfredo Bonilla told the Televicentro channel.

“We are all arriving together as a family, we are going to arrive safely,” replied another migrant, identified as Rafael. (JO)