AZMEX I3 7-4-18

AZMEX I3 7 APR 2018

Note: Media coverage of the caravan significantly declining. if still up, take a good look at the photo. http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/.
As the caravan gets to Mexico City, DF.

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Police aggression against the Migrant Viacrucis
Blanche Petrich |
Saturday, 07 Apr 2018 09:28
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2018/04/07/agresion-policiaca-al-viacrucis-migrante-4453.html

About 800 people who make up the caravan of migrants arrived in Puebla, where they receive legal advice. Afp Photo

Mexico City. The caravan of Central American migrants, mostly Hondurans, who has been crossing Mexico for several weeks, was divided into two contingents to speed up their progress towards Mexico City. One of the columns - about 800 people aboard nine buses - arrived in the course of yesterday morning in Puebla, and another, of about 150 people in three buses, arrived at night in the capital of the country . (Mexico City)

One of the columns that started from Thursday night in the Oaxacan town of Matías Romero, adjacent to Veracruz, was harassed yesterday afternoon by the municipal police of Orizaba when they made a stop at a gas station. The president of the binational organization Pueblos sin Fronteras, Irineo Mújica, and other migrants were beaten. Finally the group was able to follow its path and last night arrived at the capital.

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They denounce the disappearance of 200 caravan migrants after INM raids
BY GABRIELA HERNÁNDEZ,
7 APRIL, 2018 NATIONAL
https://www.proceso.com.mx/528950/denuncian-la-desaparicion-de-200-migrantes-de-caravana-tras-redadas-del-inm

PUEBLA, Pue., (Proceso.com.mx) .- Members of the Caravan Viacrucis del Migrante denounced here that more than 200 Central Americans who participated in this mobilization are missing after they had to disperse in the town of El Encinal, Veracruz, a cause of immigration raids launched against them by the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto.

The migrants confirmed what was said by President Donald Trump in a message via Twitter, since the federal government even used public force to dismantle part of the Viacrucis del Migrante Caravan on its way through Veracruz, so much so that to date it is unknown the whereabouts of dozens of its participants.

"The Caravan is largely divided thanks to Mexico's strong immigration laws and its willingness to use them so as not to cause a giant scene on our border," the US president wrote on April 5.

Interviewed on their arrival in Puebla, some of the Central Americans said that the mobilization of Hondurans, Nicaraguans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans - who left Tapachula, Chiapas, on March 25, with a contingent of approximately 1,500 migrants - was split at Matías Romero, Oaxaca

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