La Lima, Cortés
Emerson sells bananas at the border of a polluted place in La Lima, north of Honduras, but hopes to start soon and migrate to the United States. Cree that the electing president, Joe Biden, will have to read.
Despite the fact that these cyclones are threatening their lives and their schools will be affected by the pandemic, the 18-year-old created that there is not much to do here.
“We have the hope that we change, that we benefit” Donald Trump’s salute and the Democratic League Biden the 20th of January, dice Emerson López to the AFP from the Buen Samaritano barrier, on the outskirts of La Lima, 180 km north of Tegucigalpa and close to San Pedro Sula, the departure point of other caravan migrants that since 2018 he intends to travel to the United States.
Despite the restrictive policies of the salient administration, many of the 9.5 Honduran residents are close to burning up. A new caravan of migrants was called for the 15th of January. “If we do well, the majority of those who are here will take the decision of those who have it,” said Emerson.
– The daños of the cyclones –
Lima, with 90,000 inhabitants, will show signs of the devastation that will be caused by the Cyclones Eta and Iota in November. The floods caused by the buen Samaritano alcanzaron, although various communes of the productive valley of Sula, corazon of the economy of the country.
Tropical and encroaching torrents on the covid-19 in 2020 cost Honduras, one of the poorest Latin American countries, $ 5,000 million, governing calculators, including one-fifth of the country’s GDP.
The banana cultivars of the Chiquita Transnational Community, in the vicinity of La Lima, are devastated.
Emerson’s house, where he lives with his parents and four lesser men, is without tech. And without schooling, because of the coronavirus, the computer science graduation period is lost.
With this panorama, “tendría that tomar the decision of irme, ¿kómo voy a conseguir work without experience and without the suffix ed?”, Se queja.
– “Hacer la lucha” –
Martha Saldívar, a member of Emerson’s, also registered to join the United States.
‘It occurred to Biden to leave the wall [que construye Trump en la frontera] y habrá que hacer la lucha “para llegar hasta allá, afirma la mujer de 51 años, frente a su vivienda, aún rodeada de escombros y sin un techazo de techo.
Since December abundant in social speeches for “Caravana 15 of January 2021”, which is expected to be sold by the hondureña San Pedro Sula and he was summoned on the Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Mexican lorries by the “American sueño.”
Muchos hondureños would be part of more than a million compatriots living in the exterior -the majority in the United States-, a powerful resource for the country, which in 2020 will receive from them the record of 6 million dollars in nets, more than 20 % of Gross Internal Product (GDP). Las remesas represent a 14% of Guatemala’s GDP and a 16% of El Salvador.
Pero Esteban Rosales, pastor of a pentecostal temple affected by the floods, intends to convene.
“Miembros de la iglesia han considerade irse. Uno como pastor los motiva para que no, que la lucha continu. Dios permittí que sigamos vivos para que siguiéramos adelante”, comment.
Since October 2018, he has taken more than a dozen caravans from Honduras, at least four of them integrated up to 3,000 people. But he was shocked by the migratory checks on the front of the United States, and each had his own frustration with the Mexican and Guatemalan authorities.
The governor of Guatemala warns that foreigners entering their territory tend to present a negative test of covid-19 and documents as a rule.
Thus, the Consulate of Mexico in San Pedro Sula assured that its governor “would not allow, would not allow the irregular entry of caravans of migrant persons”.
– “Chance to work” –
As recorder of the failures, semananmental llegan varios vuelos con deportados a Centroamerica, alunque su numero diminished the year passed by the pandemic.
Pero Cecilia Arévalo, 54 years old, who has lived in California for decades and recently wanted to visit relatives on the outskirts of San Salvador, hoping that “with Biden the migration rates in the United States will change and be more humane”.
All 15 km, and Santo Tomás, Cristian Panameño compare the optimism.
“Think about having this new president, the things for a migrant que llega sin papeles cambie, porque con Trump we are iodides “, says this mechanic of 42 years, who has been deported has stopped to migrate for the second time.
“I’m going to the United States aspiring to have a chance to work.”