Guatemala City.
The government of Guatemala He assured on Tuesday that he was preparing an interinstitutional strategic plan for the provisional arrival in the country next week of a new migrant caravans din honduras and what’s going on US in search of the American dream.
The Guatemalan Migration Institute reported in a press release that the plan is being pursued “Isolation, control, attention and humanitarian assistance” from caravan, whose date of arrival would be approximately January 15 daccording to the authorities.
The immigration entity stressed that people who want to enter the country Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua are required to submit a PCR test A covid-19 negative antigen and passport A identification document valid.
“People who do not obeyImmigration requirements they will not be admitted, “the Guatemalan institute added Migration. ITAuthorities said they were trying to promote “a regular, orderly and safe migration “stressed the statement.
Insecurity, pandemic and lack of jobs
In early October, several caravans comitted between 2,000 and 3,000 migrants they left honduras goes to US, but a large percentage was retained in Guatemala of security forces and returned to your country.
In December last year, another group of hundreds of Hondurans organized a new caravan to the USA from San Pedro Sula, in the north Honduras bringing the lack of jobs after the devastating damage left by Tropical storms And it’s Iota.
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However, migrants scattered for him Guatemalan territory and in some cases they were too they returned to their homeland.
s Hondurians trying to get out in caravan with the idea of arriving US claim that they are leaving their territory due to violence andin the absence of a job, scourges that have been exacerbated by the crisis caused by covid-19 pandemic and meteorological phenomena such as And it’s Iota.
One of the most massive caravans was the first of its kind that left on October 13, 2018 with more than 4,000 people. EFE