Thousands of refugees from southern Mexico traveled to the capital Mexico City on Sunday, hoping to get a visa in the United States. The people have so far been detained by authorities in the south of the country. They hope that their march will speed up the processing of their visa applications.
About 3,000 people left the town of Tapachula on the border with Guatemala on Sunday morning, authorities said. They usually come from Venezuela and want to reach Mexico City in about 10 days.
Each year, countless people travel to Mexico on foot to escape the violence and poverty in their homeland. From there, they hope to find a legal route to the US.
Expect more refugees this year
The International Organization for Migration and the UN Refugee Agency recently warned that about 400,000 people could cross the dangerous jungle in the so-called Darien Gorge this year, significantly more than recently. The mountainous and swampy rainforest region connects Colombia to Panama, from where it is thousands of miles to the Mexico-US border. Most refugees who choose this route come from Venezuela, Haiti and Ecuador. The UN warned that people were at risk of disease, violence, sexual abuse and human trafficking.
Source: Krone
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