More than two thousand migrants are moving to the Mexican capital, protesting the delay in the delivery of documents for them to legally reside or transit through the country. | Photo: Twitter @ajplusespanol
Mexico City, October 23 (RHC)-- A new caravan of migrants, mostly Central Americans, left Saturday morning from Tapachula, Chiapas, heading to Mexico City, where they seek to regulate their situation.
The group is accompanied by Irineo Mújica, director of Pueblos Sin Fronteras and Luis García Villagrán, from the Center for Human Dignification.
More than two thousand migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala are moving to the Mexican capital, in protest against the delay in the delivery of documents for them to legally reside or transit through the country.
The migrant caravan "For Freedom, Dignity and Peace" -- as it was named -- left Tapachula this Saturday at 08:00 hours and seeks to travel some 1,160 kilometers to the Mexican capital.
According to Mújica, many migrants have been waiting for months for a resolution from the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees and the National Institute of Migration. After several days of organizing to leave Tapachula, a city that in recent weeks has seen the unusual arrival of thousands of foreigners from at least 11 countries, the foreigners began their long walk.
"We are going to move forward. We are going to ask for dialogue with the migratory authorities and we are walking in peace," said activist Luis Villagran.
