On 13 October, the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula, located in the north of the country, second in importance and with more than two million citizens, saw the so-called “migrant caravan" leave for the US, still the desired land for many Latin Americans.

It is estimated that some 4,500 people began their long walk that day.

The initiative was convened through social networks, specifically from Facebook and through a general account. Various sources have attributed the initiative to organizations financed and linked to the American billionaire George Soros, specifically to the Open Society, that, however, has denied any connection with the caravan.

Whatever the case, the march has received an important support in infrastructure and material aid since its inception. Various NGOs and local authorities as well as voluntary and aid groups have been supporting migrants in all territories they traveled through. Food, shelter, medical attention has been provided to refugees and migrants who carry out that dangerous same route individually.

The initial column, composed mostly of Hondurans, has been joined along the way by groups of people from El Salvador and Guatemala, reaching, at the time of entering in the Mexican capital, an approximate figure of 10,500 people, of whom one fourth are children and minors.

The number, it is believed, will increase as the migrant column approaches an indeterminate point on the long border that separates Mexico from the US (4,000 km), delimited essentially by the Rio Grande.

The issue has been a throwing weapon, like a boomerang, in the recent North American mid-term elections, as the President and many of his candidates have warned that the march was a kind of "barbarian invasion" composed of criminals and outlaws, while many Democrat candidates have defended the right to political asylum and migration rights. It is important to bear in mind that one fifth of the American population is of direct Latino origin.

The numerous communities, resident in the United States, of Salvadoran, Honduran and Guatemalan origin that function today as "call effect" have a fairly recent antecedent in the migrations caused by the armed conflicts of the 1980s in Central America, at a time when the massive violations of human rights were daily practices promoted and protected by the US governments under the argument of combating the advance of communism in the region.

But beyond words and statements the President of the United States has also taken concrete measures that do not point to anything good, such as the transfer of 15,500 military personnel to the southern border who are already installing barbed wire fields and armored areas, and a decree "provisionally" suspending the right to request political asylum for migrants without proper papers in the states bordering Mexico.

On the other hand it should be noted that the elected President of the Aztec country, Antonio Manuel López Obrador, met with representatives of the migrants and proposed them to stay in Mexico and seek work in that country.

Mexico’s elected president, however, will only take office in December and the migrants will arrive at the border before those dates.

The members of the March have thanked Obrador for the offer but they have made it clear that their ultimate goal is to reach the "promised land" of the United States.

Everything points to the fact that this situation could eventually lead to serious border incidents especially given the military approach taken by the US president.