 Thousands of migrants left the town of Tapachula in southern Mexico early on December 24 with the hope of reaching the United States, leading the caravan where migrants carrying across, a Mexican flag and a large banner that read Poverty Exodus back in Honduras, was a Santos was a security guard, but life threats from MS-13 gang members forced him to flee his country towards the United States. Migrants are heading through Mexico to the US to escape violence, economic distress and negative. of climate change, according the UN. The number crossing the perilous Darien Gap straddling Colombia and Central America has topped half a million this year, double last year's record. I'm tired of here in Tapachula, without work, going through hunger, paying home, there's no space. I come running to Las Maras, because I work as a security guard and they came to ask for the money, we didn't have any projectiles, and others didn't have the projectiles to have there, they threatened me to die, and not just for once, they took me to Trepezi, and I was afraid and decided to travel here to Mexico to see if they gave us the opportunity to go to the US.