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On the Desperate and Uncertain Trail of the Migrant Caravan.
Much of the political rhetoric surrounding the caravan is premised on the idea that the migrants know exactly where they’re going. In fact, many of them haven’t thought that far in advance.
Members of the migrant caravan that left Honduras in mid- October 2018 pile up in the back of a truck as they leave the town of Pijijiapan, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, towards their next stop, Arriaga, about 60 miles away.
(Images in the portfolio were shot for The New Yorker, The New York Times and Unicef.)
Members of a local street gang gather inside their safe house in a poor neighborhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Enemies of the two main gangs, the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18, their main activity is to protect their neighborhood while doing small scale drug trafficking and working as hitmen.
Gang violence, poverty and poor political and socio economical conditions are still driving large numbers of Hondurans to seek asylum in the United States, Latin America and Europe.
Gabriela Liseth, 13 at home in El Progreso, Honduras. While traveling with his father, Pedro, and siblings Angel Gabriel,12 , Kaily Margot, 7 and Valeria, 4, they were kidnapped by the zetas in Mexico and hold hostage for 42 days.
The incredibly difficult and dangerous trip through Mexico led thousands of central Americans to travel in groups. Recent migrant caravans counted more than 6 thousand people.
Andrea Belen, 8, in the one room house she shares with her father Josué Fuentes in Choloma, a poor industrial neighborhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. A widow and unemployed, Josué planned to migrate to the US with his daughter to be with his sister in Texas, who advanced the money for their trip.
The night before the trip, dissuaded by reports of arrests at the border and fearful he would be arrested or separated from his daughter, he decided not to go.
Other forms of bullying students are subjected to are sexual attacks and gender-based violence. [NAMES CHANGED] Friends Nicolle, 13, Jennifer, 13, and Concepcion, 14, in Progreso, Honduras, are being harassed by a 15-year-old schoolmate who is part of a criminal network that exploits young girls for prostitution. "And the worst," the teens say, "is that it doesn't help to change schools. The same [network is] in all schools here."
An Honduran refugee with her 4 month old baby girl at the Senda de Vida shelter in Reynosa, Mexico. The flow of refugee and migrant children from Central America making their way to the United States shows no sign of letting up, despite the dangers of the journey.
A local family provides free meals for members of the migrant caravan one late afternoon in Mapastepec, Chiapas, Mexico.
Central Americans part of the migrant caravan that left Honduras in October 2018 leave the town of Mapastepec, Chiapas, to the next stop, Pijijiapan, about 46 km north. Since six hundred migrants first gathered in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, three weeks earlier, the group has grown to more than five thousand, crossing into Guatemala and then Mexico, at a pace of roughly thirty miles a day.
David, 9, from Colon, Honduras, rest by the side of the road as the family takes a break during their 50 km march with the migrant caravan in Chiapas, Mexico. He is traveling with his mother Jacquelin Cardona and his siblings Josue, 6, Jair 12 and Jessica, 3.
By the side of the road, Mauricio's family of 9 waited 4 hours for a ride. Carolina, 27 holding Janel, 3 months old, daughter of Mauricio and Cindy Castro. Next to her, on the floor sleeping is her daughter, Marangeli, 4.
Migrants part of the caravan that left Honduras mid October 2019 rest by the side of the road during a 46 km trek Mapastepec to Pijijiapan,Chiapas, Mexico.
A truck carrying migrants on the road from San Pedro Tapanatepec to Santiago Niltepec, Mexico, October 2018.
Jair, 12, David, 9, Josué 6 and Jessica, 3, from Colón, Honduras, sleep in the central square in Arriaga, where the caravan arrived earlier, about 100 km north of their last stop and the largest stretch of the caravan so far.
Exhausted after a 60 km trek under a sweltering sun, members of the migrant caravan rest by the shadow of an abandoned cargo train in Arriaga, Chiapas, Mexico, in October 2018.
Gamaliel Guevara, 5 months, in a shelter in Santiago Niltepec, Oaxaca, a town of 5000 people on the route of the migrant caravan.
Sick with a fever, he arrived one day ahead of the rest the caravan with his parents and an uncle and were being treated by local health authorities.
On the road northward from Pijijiapan to Arriaga, a town about sixty miles away.
Members of the migrant caravan, who have been camping in San Pedro Tapanatepec since the day before, listen to instructions on when they will be moving to Santiago Niltepec, their next stop. Santiago, Niltepec, a small town of 5000 people, is preparing for their arrival with a mix of sense of duty to help and some fear, caused by rumors of a kidnapping and the sheer size of the caravan.
Sisters Yarehtzi Montero Solis,13, and Esther Montero Solis, 22, in the house they share with their family in Las Águilas neighbborhood in Tijuana, just a few feet from the border wall.
The family has been living there for 25 years and have never been to the US.
Angel Raciel Zaragoza celebrates his birthday at the beach next to the border wall Tijuana/San Diego at Playas de Tijuana, in Tijuana, Baja California, México.
Although the whole family lives in San Diego, they celebrated the birthday in Tijuana so his father (who does not live in the US) could be present.