Another, bigger migrant caravan is set to leave from Honduras next monthLA Times, Dec 27, 2018, Wendy Fry
Another migrant caravan — this one estimated at 15,000 people — is preparing to leave Honduras on Jan. 15, according to migrant rights advocates and Spanish-language media. “They say they are even bigger and stronger than the last caravan,†said Irma Garrido, a member of the migrant advocacy group Reactiva Tijuana Foundation.
[...]
Garrido said this new, larger caravan will probably be joined by more people in El Salvador and in Guatemala, but she said they don’t plan on coming straight to the Tijuana-San Diego border, where resources are already stretched nearly to a breaking point.
“They will stay in the south of Mexico in Chiapas and Oaxaca. Their aim is to request work there,†she said.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has pledged visas and work in Mexico for Central American migrants. In his inauguration speech, he pledged public works projects such as planting 2 million trees and construction of his Maya Train, which will link cities in the three Yucatan peninsula states as well as Tabasco and Chiapas.
The $8-billion project is expected to create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the southern states of Mexico.
Last week, Mexico and the United States agreed to develop a plan to curb Central American migration. The plan includes a $25-billion investment from Mexico into its southern states over the next five years. The United States will contribute $4.8 billion to Mexico and $5.8 billion to the Northern Triangle of Central America, which is made up of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Most of the U.S. funding will be allocated from existing aid programs.
More:
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-me-ln-new-migrant-caravan-20181227-story.html
