In the Guatemalan town of Tecún Umán, hundreds of migrants are calling to participate in a new caravan that aims to enter Mexican territory, passing through the region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in Oaxaca.
The migrants, explains the coordinator of the Center for Human Dignity, Luis Rey García Villagrán, plan to begin their walk next Sunday, July 21, and their goal is to reach the United States of America.
If the departure and trajectory of the new caravan is confirmed, it would be the fifth that would be crossing the Oaxacan municipalities of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, since January of this year 2024, when the first caravan of foreigners this year was known as the “Exodus of Poverty.”
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“I will not be able to accompany the migrants because I am facing a process in the investigation file 26-2024 of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), for the alleged crime of human trafficking, but I will be attentive to their needs,” says García Villagrán.
The coordinator of the Center for Human Dignity denounced that due to his commitment to “poor migrants,” because “there are rich migrants” who are hooked by the gangs that traffic them, he is a victim of harassment by the Mexican State.
García Villagrán recalled that it was on January 4 of this year when he was notified of the accusations made against him by two migrants, one from Venezuela and another from Honduras, who told the authority that they had given him 50 thousand pesos to take them on foot to the United States.
Since then, he says, he has been persecuted by the authorities, despite the fact that Judge Silvino López Hernández declared that there were no elements to charge him as a human trafficker.
Luis Rey García Villagrán requested that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) grant him precautionary measures to protect his life and that of his family, especially because his work as a defender of the human rights of migrants has been violated.
Aside from the organization of the caravan for next July 21, groups of 300 and 500 migrants continue to arrive every day to San Pedro Tapanatepec, in the eastern part of the Isthmus, and from there they travel in all types of vehicles to reach Juchitán.
Source: oaxaca.eluniversal
