Tired and angry, chips of migrant caravans in the Mexican state.
Tired and angry, chips of migrant caravans in the Mexican state.
ISLA, Mexico - A caravan of 4,000 Central American migrants traveling through Mexico was divided into several groups, one spent the night in a city in the coastal state of Veracruz and other migrants continued to the capital of the country.
The divisions took place during a tense day when tempers flared and some migrants argued with caravan organizers and criticized Mexican officials. They were upset because the governor of Veracruz, Miguel Angel Yunes, had resigned an offer on Friday night to provide buses on Saturday to jump the migrants to Mexico City.
The migrants traveled to the city of Isla, about 700 miles (1,126 kilometers) south of the United States border, where several thousand stopped to rest, eat and receive medical attention. They planned to spend the night there before leaving at 5 a.m. Sunday en route to the city of Córdoba.
But other migrants, mainly men and the youngest members of the group, kept walking or hitching to Puebla and Mexico City. They crouched down to spend the night in Juan Rodríguez Clara or Tierra Blanca along the route.
"We think it's better to continue together with the caravan, we will continue and respect the organizers," said Luis Euseda, 32, of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, who is traveling with his wife, Jessica Fugon. on island. "Others went ahead, maybe they do not have a goal, but we do have an objective and that is to arrive."
The caravan organizers have requested buses in the last days after three weeks on the road, riding a bicycle and walking. With the group dispersed, some have raised questions about whether the caravan would stay together.
In a statement, the migrants criticized Mexican officials for heading them north through the state of Veracruz on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, calling it a "death route." A trek through the sugar fields and fruit trees of Veracruz takes them through a state where hundreds of migrants have disappeared in recent years, falling prey to the kidnappers seeking ransom payments.
Authorities in Veracruz said in September they had discovered the remains of at least 174 people buried in clandestine graves. Some security experts have questioned whether those bodies belonged to migrants.
Gerardo Pérez, a 20-year-old migrant, said he was tired. "They are playing with our dignity, if only you could have seen the happiness of the people last night when they told us we were going by bus and not today," he said.
The caravan's "force in numbers" strategy has allowed them to mobilize support as they move through Mexico and has inspired subsequent migrants to try their luck through the caravan.
Mexico faces the unprecedented situation of having three caravans in more than 300 miles (500 kilometers) of roads in the states of Chiapas, Oaxaca and Veracruz, with a total of more than 6,000 migrants.
On Friday, a caravan from El Salvador went through the Suchiate River in Mexico, with a total of 1,000 to 1,500 people who want to reach the United States border.
That caravan initially tried to cross the bridge between Guatemala and Mexico, but Mexican authorities told them they would have to show their passports and visas and enter groups of 50 to be processed.
Another caravan, also of approximately 1,000 to 1,500 people, entered Mexico earlier this week and is now in Chiapas. That group includes Hondurans, Salvadorans and some Guatemalans.
The first largest group of mainly Honduran migrants entered Mexico in October.
Mexican officials seem to be in conflict over whether to help or hinder their travel.
Immigration agents and police have sometimes arrested migrants in the smaller caravans. But several mayors have rolled out the welcome mat for the migrants who came to their cities, organizing food and camping sites.
The Department of the Interior of Mexico says that almost 3,000 of the migrants in the first caravan have requested refuge in Mexico and hundreds more have returned to their homes.
With or without the help of the government, uncertainty awaits.
President Donald Trump has ordered US troops to travel to the Mexican border in response to the caravans. More than 7,000 active duty soldiers have been deployed in Texas, Arizona and California before the midterm elections.
He plans to sign an order next week that could lead to the large-scale detention of migrants crossing the southern border and prohibit anyone caught crossing illegally from claiming asylum.
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Associated Press writer Amy Guthrie in Mexico City contributed to this report.
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