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Con participación de referentes de distintas áreas se llevaron a cabo las mesas interinstitucionales en ciudades de la zona de los Valles organizadas por el Consejo Provincial de la Mujer e Igualdad de Género bajo la coordinación de los Centros de Atención a Mujeres en Situación de Violencia. Los encuentros se concretaron en Monterrico y Perico. Se avanzó en la implementación del manual de procedimientos para la atención y protección de derechos de las mujeres y personas de las diversidad, con el objetivo de garantizarles su bienestar a través de la intervención de las diferentes instituciones que trabajan en territorio.
On 18 January, Guatemala security forces cleared a road occupied by migrants from a large caravan, comprised mainly of Hondurans entering the country and camped overnight. Security forces were seen wielding shields and descending the road toward them by the Vado Hondo village. Migrants were prompted to assemble by increased hardships in Honduras, already rampant with poverty and gang violence. It now faces an economic downturn wrought by COVID-19, compounding damage from two November hurricanes. The caravan also endeavoured with hopes of a stronger embrace from newly elected United States President Joe Biden than his predecessor, Donald Trump.
Notwithstanding, early Tuesday, buses, and police transported migrants to the Guatemala-Honduras border crossing of El Florido. They were then passed from Guatemalan to Honduran border agents and boarded buses returning them to their hometowns. While small groups proceeded toward Mexico’s border, over 2,300 migrants were returned to Honduras
Guatemalan police and soldiers have used tear gas and wielded batons and shields against a group of Honduran migrants that tried to push through their roadblock. A group of about 2,000 migrants had stopped short of the roadblock Saturday night.
Guatemalan police and soldiers launched tear gas and wielded batons and shields against a group of Honduran migrants that tried to push through their roadblock early Sunday. A group of about 2,000 migrants had stopped short of the roadblock the night before. The roadblock was strategically placed at a chokepoint on the two-lane highway to Chiquimula in an area known as Vado Hondo. It’s flanked by a tall mountainside and a wall leaving the.