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TAPACHULA — Thousands People This week, after the deaths of at least 53 migrants in Texas and highlighting the dangers faced by many migrants, the percentage of people who left southern Mexico on foot early Friday morning is the United States. I was worried about my efforts to reach.
This group mainly included young men from Central America, Venezuela and Cuba, and included families walking with their children and babies in strollers.
"I'm suffocating, criminal, and assassin, I'm fleeing Cuba with his wife and daughter because of the dictatorship of Castro Kannel," said immigrant Samuel Ventura. Told.
The immigrant caravan began in Tapachula, near the border between Mexico and Guatemala, following two others organized earlier this month with a large Venezuelan delegation. rice field. Both caravans broke up in a nearby town.
When asked about the death of an immigrant on a overheated tractor trailer in Texas on Monday, caravans expressed sympathy and said they were walking to avoid the danger of using other means of transportation. Some people said.
"We are really in mourning," said Moises Velez, an immigrant from Venezuela. "It hurt us all."
(Report by Jose Torres, Written by Brendan O’Boyle, Edited by Richard Chang)
