Why are migrants leaving Central America?

October 23, 2018

A caravan of some 7,000 Central American migrants is advancing through southern Mexico with hopes of reaching the U.S. border. The vast majority of them are from Honduras, a country of 9 million people.

A bleak combination of powerful drivers like poverty and gang violence leads many to see emigration as the only possibility for a decent life, and an estimated 750,000 Hondurans live outside the country, including nearly 600,000 in the United States, according to the International Organization for Migration.

Here’s a look at why Hondurans are fleeing.
POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
Nearly two-thirds . . .

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