Another Migrant Caravan Gathers in Guatemala

Charity workers see new dynamic as migrants band together to seek to avoid hiring human traffickers and find more safety in numbers in dangerous trek

HUIXTLA, Mexico—Even as a caravan of thousands of Honduran migrants makes its way across southern Mexico, another caravan is forming in its wake.

Thousands of Honduran migrants gathered in a Guatemalan city near the border with Honduras Tuesday to prepare for a new caravan that would follow in the footsteps of a larger group currently marching to the U.S.-Mexico border, posing a fresh challenge to Guatemalan and Mexican authorities seeking to contain a surge in mass migration.

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