It was estimated to include 4,000 to 5,000 migrants, mostly from Central America, Venezuela and Haiti. It is the largest migrant caravan to attempt to leave southern Mexico this year.
set out walking in the rain early Monday in southern Mexico, tired of waiting to normalize their status in a region with little work and still far from their ultimate goal of reaching the United States.
Many carried children in their arms, on their backs, using sheets of plastic or blankets to shield them from the persistent rain.Migrants from Central and South America take part in a caravan towards the border with the United States, in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, on June 6, 2022. The caravan departed just hours before Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that he would not be attending the Summit of the Americas because the Biden administration did not invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to participate.
" been waiting about two months for the visa and still nothing, so better to start walking in this march," Medina said.
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