Share Comment on this story Comment Add to your saved stories SaveSAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — Some 500 Honduran migrants in a caravan departed Saturday before dawn from the northern city of San Pedro Sula in hopes of reaching the United States. His cousin, Arnold Ulises Hernández, said they were encouraged to join the caravan after finding out about it on social networks. AdvertisementThe vast majority of migrants cross Central America and Mexico in small groups, using all types of transportation and smuggling networks. Since then, the caravans were stopped first in southern Mexico and later in Guatemalan territory. Days before Honduran President Xiomara Castro took office in January 2022, a similar group of some 600 migrants departed from San Pedro Sula and was disbanded by Guatemalan security forces.
