Nearly 3,000 migrants from the 'Exodus from poverty' caravan, which the Government of Mexico had dissolved last week after leaving as the largest of 2023, they regrouped this Monday in Chiapasthe southern border state, to advance towards the neighboring entity of Oaxaca.
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Migrants, mostly from Central and South Americanow left the municipality of Arriaga, where they accused the Government of Mexico of violating their human rights and deceive them with the promise of regularizing them in exchange for breaking up the caravan.
Before leaving, Luis García Villagran, coordinator of the Center for Human Dignification (CDH), which accompanies the migrants, announced to the media that they denounced the National Migration Institute (INM) before the Attorney General's Office (FGR).
In addition, he demanded to investigate the validity of the documents in which the head of the INM, Francisco Garduño, promised to regularize vulnerable groups of migrants.
“We have a document that we have already presented to the Attorney General's Office of the Republic to investigate the authenticity document that Grupo Beta (of the INM) delivered, where they promised to provide shelter and documents of a year's stay in Mexico, and that does not was fulfilled, they just abandoned them,” said the activist.
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The caravan left on Christmas Eve from Tapachula, on the southern border of Mexico, with nearly 10,000 migrants as the largest of the year, but it was dissolved last Tuesday because the group that remained in the municipality of Mapastepec agreed to board the INM buses in exchange for its regularization.
But the migrants resumed their march this Monday after stating that they were abandoned in municipalities in the state of Chiapas such as San Cristóbal de Las Casas, the capital Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Pijijiapan, Mapastepec, Arriaga and Berriozábal.
They made a final stop 500 meters from the Los Corazón checkpoint, in Oaxaca, where they waited for stragglers to cross into the neighboring state. Upon entering the state of Oaxaca, they advanced towards the Corazones community, where they will spend the night and then continue towards the town of Tapanatepec and Juchitán.
The director of the National Migration Institute (INM) of Mexico, Francisco Garduño (center).
The walkers hope that in two more days the caravan will total 10,000 people. Berta Ramírez, a Venezuelan who is traveling with her son and a companion, expressed her discontent to EFE after being admitted to the shelters offered by the INM.
“I was detained and threatened with being a fugitive for not staying in a place that doesn't even have medical care,” she said. ” My hope is to advance to Mexico City, the faster the better, because we have lost a lot of time“We have been walking for many days, with my child who has been getting sick all the way and in each place I have requested help with medicines and hospitals, but nothing,” he added.
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The advance occurs after an unprecedented migratory surge in December, when there were more than 10,000 irregular daily crossings on the border between Mexico and the United Stateswhere the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed the irregular arrival of more than 2.2 million migrants from January to November.
EFE
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