RIO DULCE – About 1,000 Honduran migrants headed for the United States became increasingly desperate Friday in the face of a police and army roadblock in northern Guatemala that was preventing them from continuing toward the United States.Seldom since 2018 have the prospects for a migrant caravan been so discouraging.
Guatemala’s president sees them as a contagion risk amid the coronavirus pandemic and has vowed to deport them. Mexico’s president thinks the caravan is a plot to influence the U.S.
elections. And newly formed Tropical Storm Gamma threatens to dump torrential rain on their planned route through southern Mexico.