Migrants set out on foot after promised buses fail to materialise

Record ID: 1362864

  • Title: Migrants set out on foot after promised buses fail to materialise
  • Date: 3rd November 2018
  • Summary: SAYULA DE ALEMAN, VERACRUZ, MEXICO (NOVEMBER 03, 2018) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS PROFANITY*** CROWD OF MIGRANTS WAITING BEFORE DAWN FOR BUSES TO TAKE THEM FORWARD TO MEXICO CITY CROWD OF MIGRANTS WAITING MORE OF MIGRANTS WAITING IN LINE OVERVIEW OF MIGRANTS WAITING MIGRANT WAITING IN LINE CROWD OF MIGRANTS AS DAY BREAKS VARIOUS OF MIGRANT CARAVAN SETTING OUT ON FOOT (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) HONDURAN MIGRANT, RONNY ALVAREZ, SAYING: "They (government officials) are playing games with us. We have dignity, we have rights. But the fact that they say one thing and promise something (buses) and then when the time comes they come up with a new idea; they're just playing with us. Tell the truth, that's all. That's what we want. [JOURNALIST ASKING: Are you going to follow the route they've proposed or are you going to wait for them to bring buses later?] We're going to keep on walking. We're pushing forward, not one step back, always ahead. If it's true they want to bring us buses, all the better." VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS, SOME PUSHING STROLLERS, SETTING OUT ON FOOT (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) HONDURAN MIGRANT, SANTIAGO BENITEZ, SAYING: "The problem is we were all duped thinking buses were coming. We thought it would be safer. That's why we're screwed. In the end people are going together, because we're all going in a caravan. But being duped is no good. It would have been a nice help, especially for the kids, but it didn't happen, so onward we go." MORE OF MIGRANTS SETTING OUT ON FOOT VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WALKING MORE OF MIGRANTS SETTING OUT IN THE EARLY MORNING
  • Embargoed: 17th November 2018 14:03
  • Keywords: Mexico migrants immigration carvan caravan of migrants Central America
  • Location: SAYULA DE ALEMAN, VERACRUZ, MEXICO
  • City: SAYULA DE ALEMAN, VERACRUZ, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA00194YB51J
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS PROFANITY IN SHOT #10
    The caravan of Central American migrants set out on foot before dawn Saturday (November 3) morning after buses they said they were promised did not come to take them on to Mexico City.
    The migrants said authorities from the state of Veracruz said they would provide them with buses to take them to the capital city, but when the buses did not come, the migrants quickly shifted gears and hit the pavement on foot, setting out from Sayula de Aleman for Isla about 60 kilometers (35 miles) away in Veracruz state on the Gulf of Mexico.
    U.S. President Donald Trump has fixed on the caravan and immigration as a whole taking a hardened stance in a bid to rouse his political base ahead of congressional elections on Tuesday (November 6).
    The Pentagon said on Monday (October 29) it was deploying more than 5,200 troops to the border at Trump's direction to confront the men, women and children travelling through Mexico as they flee violence and poverty in Central America. Trump has characterized it as an "invasion" of migrants.
    Mexico has said 2,800 to 3,000 people are in the caravan, which left Honduras in mid-October, although many are expected to drop off before reaching the U.S. border.
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