The second migrant caravan of 2021 is set to depart Honduras on January 25
Facebook users urged migrants to meet up in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the day before
A prior caravan left Honduras last Thursday and swelled up to 8,000 individuals
By Tuesday it was broken up by Guatemalan security forces
Guatemalan TV network Televisiete reported Wednesday that at least 3,000 migrants plan to gather in a second attempt to reach the United States border
Televisiete also learned that a caravan of migrants has been scheduled to depart El Salvador on February 14
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20 January, 2021, 1:06 pm
Some migrants said they were injured as security officials forced them from the road in Vado Hondo. Picture: REUTERS.
EL FLORIDO, Guatemala (Reuters) – Guatemala on Tuesday pressed on with transporting migrants back to the border with Honduras, further thinning out a U.S.-bound caravan that was halted by security forces at the weekend.
Nearly 8,000 people entered Guatemala from Honduras last week, local authorities said. A Reuters witness estimated around a quarter of them, many with children, ended up stuck in the village of Vado Hondo when Guatemalan forces barred passage.
Security forces wielding batons cleared them from an impromptu camp on Monday, and buses provided by the government ferried them back to the El Florido border crossing with Honduras.
Guatemalan security forces on Monday cleared a road of hundreds of people in a mostly Honduran migrant caravan that had camped out overnight when authorities barred it from advancing toward the United States.
EL FLORIDO, Guatemala • A once large caravan of Honduran migrants that pushed its way into Guatemala last week had dissipated by Tuesday in the face of Guatemalan security forces.