New Salvadoran migrant caravan forms as hundreds wait at US border
World / 18 November 2018, 9:14pm / Nelson Renteria
San Salvador - At least 150 Salvadorans set off on Sunday from their impoverished Central American country in a US-bound caravan, ignoring their likely rejection at the US-Mexico border where a larger caravan of mostly Hondurans has been stalled for days.
Guarded by police officers, the men, women and children of the gathering caravan marched through San Salvador's streets to Guatemala-bound buses, loaded with heavy backpacks, water and the knowledge of an arduous 2,700-mile (4,300-km) trek ahead to the US border.
The group from El Salvador was at least the fourth caravan to set off since a first, large-scale mobilization in neighbouring Honduras, which departed on October 13 from the crime-wracked northern city of San Pedro Sula.
https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/new-salvadoran-migrant-caravan-forms-as-hundreds-wait-at-us-border-18169628
