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Caravan of 40 Salvadoran migrants sets out for US border
By MARCOS ALEMAN forming with more than
AMY GUTHRIE 20,000 people, and she
Associated Press pledged to form a “con-
SAN SALVADOR, El Salva- tainment” line around Mex-
dor (AP) — The “mother of ico’s narrow Tehuantepec
all caravans” expected to Isthmus to stop migrants
depart from Central Amer- from continuing north.
ica has begun by looking But fears over a larger car-
more like the baby of all avan and the promised
caravans, after a group of Mexican deployment of
about 40 migrants left Sat- federal police have only
urday for the U.S. from the appeared to heighten ten-
capital of El Salvador. sions.
It was not immediately clear The U.S. state department
whether they planned to said this week it was cutting
meet with other migrants aid to El Salvador, Hondu-
from Guatemala and Hon- ras and Guatemala and
duras, but the Honduran President Donald Trump
government denied there accused their leaders of
was another caravan form- doing “nothing” to prevent
ing in its country. mass migration to the Unit-
In a statement Friday, ed States.
Honduran Foreign Minister Trump also said he is likely
Maria Dolores Aguero sug- Central American migrants, part of the caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, move on a road to shut down America’s
gested that such assertions in Tapachula, Chiapas State, Mexico, Sunday, March 31, 2019. southern border next week
could actually spur aspiring Associated Press unless Mexican authorities
migrants to come together for action by organizations immediately halt all illegal
in larger groups. that activate and lead immigration, adding that it
“I respectfully suggest that these forms of migratory would be “so easy” to stop
information of this kind be mobilization,” Aguero said. migrants passing through
shared with the govern- Mexican Interior Secretary the country in an attempt
ment of Honduras prior to Olga Sanchez Cordero to enter the U.S.
making public statements said earlier in the week that A border shutdown would
that, as we have seen, ul- a caravan of migrants from be a major blow for both
timately become triggers Central America could be Mexico and the U.S.q
Nationwide blackouts become the
norm in Venezuela
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA
Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)
— Another day, another
blackout.
Power went out across
Venezuela on Sunday, just
as it did on Saturday, and
the day before that.
But while some electricity
had returned by Sunday
afternoon, jittery Venezu-
elans weren’t so much cel-
ebrating the lights coming
on as wondering when the
next outages would flick People wearing El Universal newspaper uniforms sit in the dark
them off. office of an office building during a power outage in Caracas,
“No one can put up with Venezuela, on Saturday, March 30, 2019.
this. We spend almost all Associated Press
day without electricity,” conies and building win- government supporters,
said Karina Camacho, a dows to bang pots in pro- appeared to arrive on mo-
56-year-old housewife who test and shout curses at torbikes.
was about to buy a chick- President Nicolas Maduro, The ongoing blackouts
en when electronic pay- who they consider respon- now mark another point
ment machines stopped sible for the power failures. of tension in a country
working. “There’s been no Others responded to a call paralyzed by political and
water since (last) Monday, by opposition leader Juan economic turmoil, com-
you can’t call by phone, Guaido to demonstrate pounding a humanitarian
we can’t pay with cards or against the government, crisis and deepening a pro-
even eat.” blocking roads and burn- longed standoff between
As the latest blackout un- ing rubbish until “colecti- two political parties vying
folded, many took to bal- vos,” or frequently armed for power. q
