Hurricanes and Covid heap misery on impoverished Central America
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19/05/2021 - 04:34 Orlando Chavez walks through his kitchen after performing back-breaking work collecting African palm bunches, in El Progreso, Honduras Orlando SIERRA AFP 4 min
Quejá (Guatemala) (AFP)
Orlando Chavez tucks into his lunch of five corn tortillas and a piece of cheese but admits that some days I don t eat.
The 71-year-old lives in El Progreso, a region of Honduras that has been devastated recently by two hurricanes and the pandemic.
The area is emblematic of a trifecta of issues affecting many Central Americans environmental degradation, the coronavirus and profound poverty.
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Vado Hondo, Guatemala – Guatemalan military and police forces are blocking thousands of Honduran migrants and asylum seekers hoping to make their way north to Mexico and the United States.
Thousands of Hondurans left San Pedro Sula as a group on Friday, making their way to the El Florido border crossing with Guatemala.
Between 7,000 and 8,000 people fleeing hurricane destruction, unemployment and violence in Honduras have crossed into Guatemala to date, according to Guatemalan immigration officials.
But amid a heavy security presence, their onward journey remains precarious and uncertain.
An initial group of several thousand migrants and asylum seekers made it 27 miles (43km) on foot into Guatemalan territory before soldiers and police blocking the highway stopped them. About 3,000 people who entered Guatemala on Saturday caught up on foot by Sunday morning.