Guatemala City.
The government of Guatemala assured this Tuesday that he is preparing an inter-institutional strategic plan with a view to the provisional arrival in the country next week of a migrant caravans of Honduras and what will happen U.S in search of the American dream.
The Guatemalan Migration Institute said in a press release that the plan is aiming for the “control, control, attention and humanitarian aid” from caravan, whose arrival date would be approx January 15 de according to authorities.
The immigration entity stressed that people who want to enter the country from Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua are required to have a PCR test O negative antigen from covid-19 and a passport O identification document Valid.
“People who don’t submits immigration requirements will not be admitted, ”added the Guatemalan Institute Migration. L.The authorities indicated that they are trying “a regular, orderly and safe migration “the statement emphasizes.
Insecurity, pandemic and underemployment
Early October last year multiple caravans comitted between 2,000 and 3,000 migrants they left Honduras going to U.S, but a large percentage was detained Guatemala through security forces and returned to your country.
Last December there is another group hundreds of Hondurans organized a new American caravan of San Pedro Sula, in the north of Honduras, adducing the underemployment after the devastating damage left by the Tropical storms And it is Iota.
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Migrants scattered for him Guatemalan Territory and in some cases they were back to their native country.
TheHondurans trying to get out caravan with the idea of achieving U.S claiming to leave their territory due to violence andin the absence of work, scourge aggravated by the crisis caused by the covid-19 pandemic and meteorological phenomena such as And it is Iota.
One of the most massive caravans was the first of its kind to depart on October 13, 2018 with over 4,000 people. EFE