320 migrants stranded in Honduras were transferred to the Guatemalan border

At least 320 Immigrants, mostly Venezuelans, Crowds spent the night at the stations of an idle transit service in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, were taken to the border with Guatemala. America.

The migrants, including many children, were taken in seven buses as part of a national police operation, an official of the agency told reporters.

He said the buses left in the afternoon and would arrive at the Agua Caliente border crossing. Ocotepeque, Saturday morning.

Some of the migrants have spent more than a week at the stations of Trans 450, a public service system for the Honduran capital created in 2008, which has stopped working due to a lack of buses. Stations do not have electricity and water facilities.

Although 320 foreigners, among them a few Colombians, Ecuadorians and Haitians, were taken to the Guatemalan border, at least four of the Trans 450 stations they occupied became shelters for new immigrants arriving in Tegucigalpa today.

On Wednesday, Andrea Martínez, one of the Venezuelan migrants, who has been at one of the stations for 42 days, said that she is a native of Valencia, Carabobo state, and that her only traveling companion is “God, who gave me this. The group and “I have not walked alone, but together.”

Martínez said he left his country “when the economic crisis started” and has lived outside Venezuela for nine years, four in Colombia and five in Peru. In Venezuela, “I worked as a laundress and I earned seven dollars a week, which was just enough to eat for one day,” insists Martínez, whose dream is to reach the United States.

He said his entire family was in Venezuela, but an older sister “left Medellin on Sunday to make the same trip,” but he would not be waiting for her. Honduras.

The flow of Venezuelan migrants through Honduras has increased in 2023, according to records from official sources.

Between January and November, at least 462,014 migrants, including Venezuelans, Colombians, Ecuadorians, Haitians, Africans and Asians, passed through Honduran territory, according to the State National Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras. (Gonade).

The goal of immigrants is to reach America.