A police officer checks documentation from passengers inside a bus, to check for migrants coming from the caravan of Central Americans, to prevent them from continuing their journey to the U.S, at a checkpoint, in Pajapita, Guatemala January 18, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso
VADO HONDO, Guatemala (Reuters) - Guatemalan security forces on Monday cleared a road of hundreds of people in a mostly Honduran migrant caravan that had camped out overnight when authorities barred it from advancing toward the United States.
The Guatemalan government said the road in the eastern part of the country reopened to traffic after troops with batons and plastic shields closed in on the migrants just beyond the village of Vado Hondo, about 35 miles (56 km) from border crossings into Honduras and El Salvador.
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