Fleeing the northern triangle

Migration can only be understood as a journey, as the act of going from one place to another. Evokes different sensations and memories depending on the subject, often related as a small period of time of disconnection from routine life. However, there are people who, for certain reasons, have to embark on a dangerous journey full of uncertainties in order to get to a place where their life is not threatened and they can live with dignity. The migratory phenomenon from the northern triangle of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador) to the United States has taken alarming proportions. A migration that between 1970 and 1980 was mainly driven by political instability and armed conflict; today it is weighed by the lack of economic opportunities and high degrees of violence experienced in the Central American isthmus. More than 100,000 Central Americans enter the United States annually, many of them irregularly. On October 12, 2018, a contingent of migrants gathered at the bus terminal in San Pedro Sula, the second largest city in Honduras and one of the most violent in the world. The next day they started a march through Guatemala towards Mexico while thousands of people progressively joined making it an unprecedented feat where migrants came out of hiding to band together and cross the dangerous route that leads to the US border together and united. Some would seek asylum as refugees and others would continue to the United States.