Migrant caravan: Hundreds of Hondurans set off on new trek.

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▼ Hundreds of Hondurans have set off on a new migrant caravan towards the United States.
An estimated 500 left early on Tuesday from the bus terminal in the crime-ridden Honduran city of San Pedro Sula.
Another group of about 300 set off a few hours later.
It comes as thousands of Hondurans and other Central Americans remain stranded in Tijuana on the US-Mexico border after they walked for thousands of miles as part of a caravan in October.
US President Donald Trump, who railed  against the earlier caravan ahead of the US  midterm elections, tweeted on Tuesday  that the migrants could only be stopped by  a "wall or steel barrier" of the type he has  been proposing be built on the US-Mexico  border.
BBC News Online's Latin America editor Vanessa Buschschlüter travelled to San Pedro Sula and nearby towns to speak to some of those who were leaving and found that while many want to reach the US, some are also heading to Mexico.
'I don't want the gang life' - Josué, 20

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"The situation here in Honduras has been bad for years. One tries to make it north, that's our dream, because here even when you do have work, what you get paid is only just enough to eat.
"There's no way to earn enough to get a decent place to live. There are four of us in my family and we all live in a wooden shack.
"It's dangerous here. Two rival gangs operate where I live and both have tried to recruit me. They try to paint you a nice picture of gang life but I'm not stupid. I don't want that life for myself. So I have no alternative but to leave because I don't want to get into trouble. God willing, I will make it to the US."
'The gangs want me to sell drugs' - Keilin, 21

Encarni Pindado
"I left with the caravan that set off in March [of 2018]. I left because this is not a safe place. There's always police here and gangs and they're always bothering you.
"That's one thing, but there's also the fact that you just can't get work. Some [employers] tell you you're too young, others that you're too old. Before I left, I'd been out of work for two years. I live with my 81-year-old granny and we're living off the money an uncle of mine was giving us.
"My goal was to make it to the US but when I got to Tijuana [on the US-Mexico border], the lawyers [from NGO People Without Borders who were advising migrants] told me I didn't have a strong case for requesting asylum in the US. My dad was killed by gang members 20 years ago, but the lawyers said I needed to show that I myself was under threat.
"I'm being pressured by the gangs to sell drugs, but the lawyers say I need evidence of that. I asked them: 'What am I to do? Take a picture of them at the time? That's a sure-fire way to get killed.' So I turned back voluntarily and have been back here since September. But I want to go back with this caravan and try again."
'I'm not getting work because I have one leg' - Óscar, 42

Encarni Pindado
"I lost my leg in an accident at work two years ago. I'm a bricklayer and I fell off the second storey of a house under construction. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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