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ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Large migrant caravan dissolves in Guatemala A once large caravan of Honduran migrants that pushed its way into Guatemala last week has dissipated in the face of Guatemalan security forces By OLIVER DE ROS and SANTIAGO BILLY Associated Press January 19, 2021, 11:27 PM • 5 min read The Associated Press Honduran migrants raise white flags in front of a Honduran and American flag, as they are blocked by Guatemalan...

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VADO HONDO (Guatemala): Honduran migrants, part of a caravan heading to the United States, confront Guatemalan security forces.—AFP VADO HONDO: Guate­malan police fired tear gas on Sunday to disperse thousands of Honduran migrants trying to make it to the United States on foot, with soldiers beating back a group trying to push through barricades, journalists witnessed. Security forces surrounded the migrant caravan on a road in the southeastern Guatemalan town of Vado Hondo, near the border ...

Publishing date: Jan 16, 2021  •  January 16, 2021  •  1 minute read  •  Article content TEGUCIGALPA — Small skirmishes broke out between Honduran security forces and migrants trying to cross the border into Guatemala on Friday night, with Guatemalan officials estimating around 6,500 people to be heading north to the United States. Groups of Hondurans continued to trickle past the border, even as the Guatemalan military detained hundreds of migrants, including many families with...

Can the Guatemalan government turn them back?

Guatemala police fire tear gas, disperse US-bound migrant caravan: AFP

US-bound Migrant Caravan In Guatemala Swells To 9,000 People By Edgar CALDERON 01/16/21 AT 8:41 PM At least 9,000 Honduran migrants have entered Guatemala after a first group pushed past border police late Friday and others soon followed on the first step of a journey north they hope will take them to the United States, officials said Saturday. Seeking to escape poverty, unemployment, gang and drug violence and the aftermath of two devastating hurricanes, the migrants, most of them travelin...

The migrant caravan is heading towards the US to escape an economy battered by the pandemic and hurricanes. They are headed towards Mexico, where the government has already deployed security forces and riot police.

Copy to Clipboard Migrants enter Guatemala after breaking a police barricade at the border checkpoint on January 16, 2021, in El Florido, Guatemala (Getty Images) Thousands of Hondurans are marching on foot across Guatemala in hopes of reaching the United States, authorities said on Saturday, January 16, as they flee violence and economic hardship worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic and recent deadly storms. The march came a few days before the presidential inauguration ceremony of Joe Biden, whi...