Central American Migrants Start Walking to US As Mexican Train Rides Are Blocked Pedro Mera - Proceso
go to original May 5, 2014

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Having already spent some 10 days stranded at the migrant shelter The 72, in Tenosique, Tabasco, [near the Guatemala border] after being prevented from boarding the freight train better known as "The Beast", 320 Guatemalans, Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Salvadorans made the decision to continue walking on their migratory route to the United States, activist Rubén Figueroa, a member of The 72, reported to Proceso last week.

Since Easter, train engineers working for the company Ferrocarriles del Istmo de Tehuantepec [Isthmus of Tehuantepec Railway] - operator of the Chiapas-Mayab [Yucatán] railway route, which connects Mérida [Yucatán] with Coatzacoalcos (Veracruz) [along the Gulf of Mexico] - have blocked access to train, says the activist.

"They just told them not to climb on, and if they do, they disengage the cars," Figueroa added.

Meanwhile, Gustavo Villanueva Baca, CEO of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec Railway, assured Proceso that he knew nothing about engineers preventing access to the train. According to him, Tenosique "is not a loading station", so the train doesn't stop there.

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