no money, no papers and with the threat that they could be deported, hundreds of Ecuadorian, Venezuelan, Honduran, Guatemalan, Salvadoran, Colombian and Nicaraguan migrants decided to leave in a caravan to join the first contingent that left the same place on February 28.
Despite the risk involved in walking along Mexican highways, the migrants set out when they saw that the first contingent was not stopped by Mexican authorities.
This caravan joined Jaime Israel Curry 40-year-old, originally from Honduras, who suffered the amputation of his left leg in 2009 after boarding a train in Ixtepec, Oaxaca.
This migrant reported that he had not slept for four days in that incident and that he had fallen due to fatigue in a mountainous area near Tierra Blanca, Veracruz.
“I came under the rails and the beast ran over me. The train had done nothing to me, but it was the last carriage that broke my leg, what I did was leave the mountain from where I fell and put a tourniquet on myself, to continue walking,” he shared.
Once in Tapachula, he was amputated and fitted with a prosthesis, but was sent back to his country.
Despite the fact that the prosthesis makes it difficult for him to walk, that hasn’t stopped him, as he is homeless in Honduras and has to support his five children and his wife, which has led him to migrate again.
This It is the fourth time he has left Honduras and arrived in Tapachulalooking for the national territory, but three days ago he found that the caravans had started to leave and at the last moment he set out.
Source: El heraldo
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