Some 9,000 Honduran migrants cross north into Guatemala
Associated Press
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) Guatemalan authorities estimated Saturday that as many as 9,000 Honduran migrants had crossed into Guatemala as part of an effort to form a new caravan to reach the U.S. border.
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei issued a statement calling on Honduran authorities “to contain the mass exit of its inhabitants.” The migrants pushed past about 2,000 police and soldiers posted at the border Friday and Saturday, and most entered without showing the negative coronavirus test that Guatemala requires.
“The government of Guatemala regrets this violation of national sovereignty and calls on the governments of Central America to take measures to avoid putting their inhabitants at risk amid the health emergency due to the pandemic,” Giammattei’s statement continued.
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) " Guatemalan soldiers blocked part of a caravan of as many as 9,000 Honduran migrants Saturday at a point not far from where they entered the country seeking to reach the U.S. border. The soldiers, many wearing helmets and wielding shields and sticks, formed ranks across a highway in Chiquimula, near the Honduras border, to block the procession of migrants. Guatemala s immigration agency distributed a video showing a couple of hundred men scuffling with soldiers, pushing and
Guatemala tries to block migrants
AP, GUATEMALA CITY
Guatemalan soldiers on Saturday blocked part of a caravan of as many as 9,000 Honduran migrants at a point not far from where they entered the country seeking to reach the US border.
The soldiers, many wearing helmets and wielding shields and sticks, formed ranks across a highway in Chiquimula, near the Honduras border, to block the procession of migrants.
Guatemala’s immigration agency distributed a video showing a couple of hundred people scuffling with soldiers, pushing and running through their lines, even as troops held hundreds more back.
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei in a statement urged Honduran authorities “to contain the mass exit of its inhabitants.”