A few topics have moved to Latin America this year, more than the Migration. Despite the General willingness to help, people that come to the host countries, but to their limits.
Latin America has a long history of Migration. Fear of dictatorships, bloody civil wars and armed conflict, but also of great poverty, have again and again led to outflows to other countries.
Especially Venezuela, a country that is located in a Hyperinflation, where Bank notes are only to be weighed and in which the people in the garbage digging for food is affected currently. According to the United Nations, more than three million Venezuelans have left the country, the vast majority (2.4 million) remains in the Region. The largest of the host country is Colombia with more than a million immigrants from the country in crisis.
A selection of countries in the Region, Venezuelans have emigrated.
Despite the support of civil society, it always comes back to tensions, such as, for example, in the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima, where inhabitants of the tents, and the refugees fire to the huts were. But the other States have more and more difficulties, the migrants, accommodate and provide medical services.
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Hard everyday life for migrants in Mexico
On the search of the “American Dreams”
Add to that the migration movements from Central America to the United States. Thousands of migrants from Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador return marches of up to 2000 kilometers. Your destination: United States of America. They are fleeing criminal violence in their home countries. In Honduras have been murdered this year 3300 people, in Guatemala, 16 per day. Also in El Salvador, more than 2740 people have died this year until the end of October by force. For many of the migrants, the journey ends, at the latest, in the Mexican city of Tijuana, which lies directly on the border to California.
Escape from the tear gas: Maria from Honduras with her two daughters on the border between Mexico and the United States.
The displeasure at the border increases
The harsh tone of the US President, Donald Trump, wants to build a wall on the border to Mexico and is sending troops to the border, is also taken up by people in the southern neighbouring country. In Mexico, a historical transit point on the way to the North, despite the initial helpfulness of criticism against migrants, according to. As thousands of people sat on the border to California, it comes in the Mexican city of Tijuana to protest. the protesters hold up signs with the inscription “no more caravans” and “no to the Invasion”.
The role of the United States
On the one hand, Donald Trump, the countries threatens to cancel the development of AIDS, if you don’t get the Migration in the handle. On the other hand, the United States and Mexico submit a development plan for Central America. The United States is willing to invest around $ 5.8 billion (approximately EUR 5.1 billion) for economic growth and institutional reforms in the countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
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The long way NorthJourney through three countries
Further, hitchhiking or on foot: More than two weeks have passed since a group of migrants from the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula left to the North. Their goal: the U.S.-Mexican border in Tijuana. At the end of October, up to 5,000 people have crossed Honduras and Guatemala and have arrived in Juchitán, in southeastern Mexico.
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The long way NorthDeath on the border
At the port of entry to Mexico, an important milestone for the migrants, it came out in the past few days, several violent clashes with security forces. A 26-year-old man from Guatemala was killed. According to the Mexican government, more than 1700 people have applied for the “refugee caravan” in Mexico for asylum. The greater part moves further in the direction of the United States.
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The long way NorthSecond group on the road
While the caravan is smaller, because a lot of people have embarked on the way home or in Mexico and want to stay, tried a second, from up to 1,500 migrants existing group, the first to join. Here, the refugees form a human chain to cross the Rio Suchiate, the natural border between Guatemala and Mexico.
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The long way NorthFleeing from poverty and violence
For some, escape is the only way out of a life of fear and hopelessness. Glenda Escobar from Honduras has joined with her two sons of the caravan. With 18 she was kidnapped by a member of a gang that controlled today, large parts of their home country, and raped. The 33-year-old unemployed hopes for a better life in the United States.
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The long way NorthDangerous Country
The trip through Mexico is fraught with numerous dangers. Every two minutes, is kidnapped in the country, someone – for gangs is a common means to extort money or intimidate the population. A further threat of violent police officers. But it is also helped: Domestic supply the refugees with food, in special accommodation you can rest and feel safe.
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The long way NorthSleep under the open sky
Despite the aid of the way to the North of deprivation. To back to also walk long distances, many refugees only what is Necessary for alone in Mexico, you will need to bring several Thousand kilometers behind. Sometimes the migrants, including many children, have to live, for a long time without food and Drink. If no accommodation is available in the vicinity, sleeping on the street.
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The long way North“Our military is waiting for you”
US President, Donald Trump has discovered the migrants, meanwhile, as a campaign issue. Shortly before the midterm elections, he wrote about the caravan: “This is an Invasion of our country and our military is waiting for you!” Trump has announced plans to send more than 5,000 more soldiers to the southern border of Mexico. Special units of the US border guards are there already in use.
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The long way NorthThe American Dream – only a dream?
How many Central American migrants to reach the US border (see picture), is so uncertain as the future that awaits you there. Trump uses as a deterrent to tent cities where the refugees for the duration of their asylum procedure in detention. Meanwhile, the US President has spoken out in favour of the right to citizenship to be abolished in the case of birth on US soil.