“I want to try again”: Hondurans will insist on walking to the US

Accompany photos of Johan Ordóñez and video of Carlos Alonzo /// El Florido, Guatemala, Jan 20 2021 (.) – Rosa Baquedano is disappointed, sure that in Honduras she will live hungry again. Returned to her country on Tuesday from Guatemala after the violent dissolution of the migrant caravan that she was part of, she affirms that she will not give up until she reaches the United States in search of a better future. “I want to try again, because we don’t want to return to Honduras.” Rosa tells . in El Florido, on the border that separates the two countries, to where she was taken by a military truck to return to Honduran soil. 35-year-old Rosa says that in Honduras she lost everything, including her home, after the two hurricanes that hit Central America in November. For this reason, he joined a caravan of thousands of migrants that left San Pedro Sula last Friday and that managed to advance to Vado Hondo, a small town in eastern Guatemala.The group settled on a road blocking the transport of cargo in the zone. There they were surrounded throughout the weekend and on Monday the forces of order attacked them and dispersed them with tear gas. Unable to continue, Rosa, and thousands of her compatriots, agreed to return. For now. – Die of hunger – Despite the refusal of the Guatemalan authorities for the caravan to continue on its way, the woman trusts that they will allow her to repeat the journey to the border with Mexico if she does so legally. Guatemala authorizes entry as long as the traveler carries their documents in order and a negative test of covid-19, requirements that the mass was skipped and for which they were repressed. “We do not want to return to our country because there everything is complicated, we we are even dying of hunger, “he says, as he finishes crossing into Honduran territory. Some 200 km await him by bus to San Pedro Sula. The migrants say they are fleeing the economic crisis and the violence of gangs and drug trafficking in their country, also hit by the pandemic and cyclones Eta and Iota. They blame President Juan Orlando Hernández for their misfortune. To complicate the situation, Rosa does not know the whereabouts of her husband and her three-year-old son, from whom she separated during the repression by the security forces. “Each one grabbed by his side,” he adds. She remembers that when the police attacked, she took refuge in a house in Vado Hondo, the epicenter of the crash. “It was something very rude [la operación policial], if one had no need, one would not seek the ‘American dream’ “, insists this woman as she continued to enter Honduras. She acknowledges that the conditions of the journey were harsh.” We walked a lot, without food, we endured hunger, cold, thirst and without money to be able to buy. We suffer and it is not fair because we do not want to return, we want to continue, “he asserts. – Regain strength – His compatriot, José Vásquez, 23, who accompanied the caravan with his wife and three-year-old son, does not want to live in Honduras either. , like Rosa, will try the trip again. “I’m going to look for another little money to try again (…), we have nothing [en Honduras]That’s why we have sought the American dream because we want to help our family, “says Vásquez, who sold peanuts on buses in the department of Yoro (north). Exhausted after five days of crossing in precarious conditions, the hiker told . who suffered hunger, cold, slept on the ground and on the grass. At the time of the collision with the police he left so fast that he abandoned the baby carriage that a relative had lent him to ease his son’s journey. José pointed out that in the The frustrated journey, Guatemalan police officers asked him for money to let him pass, payments to which he says he had to agree, clinging to his illusion of reaching his goal: the United States. Carlos Cáceres, 29, has a similar stance. He will insist on arriving in the United States, although he is surprised by the poor reception they had in Guatemala. “I never imagined that they would treat us badly, that they would beat us,” he laments. Since October 2018, more than a dozen caravans, some with thousands of migrants, They have left Honduras for the United States, but most have failed due to the tightening of controls. This last group left hopeful of better migratory conditions with the departure of President Donald Trump, a staunch anti-immigrant.ec/mav/yow ————————- ————————————

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