The New American by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. 10/27/2018
As a Honduran horde approaches the southern border of the United States, questions of the source of the funding and the sincerity of those among the thousands allegedly seeking asylum need urgent answers.
A report published by the New York Post identifies Bartolo Fuentes, a former Honduran legislator and vocal supporter of Hugo Chavez, as the instigator of the seemingly sudden exodus from the Central American country.
The Daily Beast printed an exposé of the ex-politician and radio show host who was once himself a refugee from his home country and who currently and constantly touts the benefit of open borders. Here’s the relevant information revealed in the Daily Beast’s article:
About a month ago, when Fuentes first became aware of small groups dispersed throughout Honduras that were organizing among themselves to make the trek north, he decided to help out, just as he had done with a previous migrant caravan last April — and indeed throughout his life.
At the time, all the groups combined numbered no more than 200 people, Fuentes says. As someone who had helped repatriate the bodies of many migrants who died in the journey al Norte, he was acutely aware of the dangers and wanted to help ensure the people’s safety.
“No one expected this human avalanche,†he told The Daily Beast in a phone call from the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa.
But then a report on the country’s most-watched cable news channel, HCH, painted a picture of the caravan that changed everything. The anchors interviewed a woman who was supposedly part of the caravan. The woman talked about safety in numbers, called Fuentes the organizer and mentioned foreign assistance. The anchors, without any supporting evidence, then said that Fuentes would pay for the migrants’ food and transportation.
Fuentes denies being the benefactor of the so-called “caravan†(the reported population of which now numbers around 7,000 people), although he admits to supporting the evacuation of a country whose government he claims is corrupt beyond repair and currently cracking down on those it considers enemies of the state.
While crossing into Guatemala with the caravan, Fuentes was apprehended and deported back to Honduras, where he was welcomed as a hero by many, but not by the increasingly unstable government.
More:
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/30469-who-s-funding-the-caravan-and-who-could-be-hiding-among-the-hondurans
