A convoy of migrants bound for the United States from Honduras on Saturday dispersed on arrival guatemala, Although a small group continues its journey, an official source announced this Sunday.
“The movement of people was dispersed,” reported Alejandra Mena, a spokeswoman for the Guatemalan Migration Agency.
A day earlier, Mena reported that Guatemalan police had made a detention in the eastern department of Izabal, near the border with Honduras. 200 migrants That they entered the country with the intention of going to the United States.
Now, according to the official, about 80 people are able to continue in small groups because they have immigration permits for transit through Guatemala, while the rest had to return to Honduras.
The initial convoy of more than 500 people left the country mainly on Saturday Venezuela.
According to local media, the migrants left on foot from the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula in the north of the country. Corinto City, Guatemala On the border with Honduras.
According to Mena, this was the first migrant convoy that left Honduras for Guatemala in 2024.
“This is a mixed migration flow made up of migrants of different nationalities,” X detailed on Saturday, previously on Twitter. Alan AlvarengaExecutive Director of the National Migration Institute of Honduras.
Since 2018, Honduran migrants have formed convoys of thousands to attempt to cross Guatemala and Mexico on foot to the United States.
These groups are usually joined by other migrants who come from South America and who are also seeking the so-called “American dream”.
Some have overcome disgust The Panamanian jungle of Darien, On the border with Colombia, a route through which more than half a million migrants traveled in 2023, burdened by poverty and violence in their countries.
