From One Caravan to Another
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🗓️ 17 October 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Right now, a group of hundreds of migrants is making its way from Honduras through Guatemala |
| 0:06.5 | towards the United States. |
| 0:07.8 | They're traveling on foot, putting miles between themselves and a country that's become |
| 0:15.0 | especially dangerous. |
| 0:16.7 | It is one of the highest murder rates in the world. |
| 0:19.5 | Well, down this is a caravan made up of mothers and children, family, all saying that they |
| 0:24.6 | are escaping violence and poverty. |
| 0:28.2 | The people on this march are leaving behind difficult lives for sure. |
| 0:32.3 | But this event, it feels political, too. |
| 0:35.6 | Journalists are invited along. |
| 0:37.3 | They're tweeting out messages from the road. |
| 0:39.9 | 12-year-old Mario told a Guatemalan news site, he's left his mother behind and he's |
| 0:43.9 | traveling solo. |
| 0:45.9 | Mario, it's you who's going to travel alone. |
| 0:50.5 | Solo. |
| 0:51.5 | And why? |
| 0:53.6 | A young woman balancing a toddler on her lap said she's fleeing domestic violence. |
| 0:58.3 | Police couldn't protect her from it. |
| 1:00.9 | When this group walks through a village, they take it over. |
| 1:03.9 | They fill the street. |
| 1:05.3 | Some estimate there are 3,000 people in this group now. |
| 1:13.0 | If they reach the U.S., many of these people seem likely to be asking for the same thing, |
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