(ANSA) – MEXICO CITY, JUN 07 – Many thousands of migrants, between 5,000 and 6,000 people mostly Venezuelans, have been traveling since yesterday from Tapachula in Chiapas (southern Mexico) towards the border with the United States, hoping between other, with their initiative, to attract the attention of the Summit of the Americas taking place in Los Angeles.
The peculiarity of this caravan, emphasizes the periodical Proceso, is that while in the past the migrants were mostly Hondurans, Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Cubans, on this occasion most of them are Venezuelans, “stuck in that city of boundary for days, weeks or even months. “
With the slogan ‘Migrants are not criminals, they are international workers’, the contingent left yesterday before dawn under persistent rain, which forced the participants, including many women and children, to protect themselves with plastic sheets and materials of luck.
Rey García Villagrán, of the Tapachula Center for Human Rights for Human Dignity, indicated that this march is a desperate act of migrants stranded in Tapachula, for the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (Comar) to finally give them appointments in the next months to check their documentation, while the National Migration Institute (INM) told them to show up no earlier than September or October. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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