After weeks walking, Mexico migrant caravan splits up on buses headed north

Migrants prepare to leave the shelter along other members of a migrant caravan that left southern Mexico two months ago and begin their journey to northern Mexico in buses after receiving their humanitarian visas to transit throughout the country, in Mexico City, Mexico December 22, 2021. REUTERS/Luis Cortes

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Several hundred migrants that left southern Mexico in a caravan two months ago began boarding buses to northern Mexico on Wednesday, after reaching a deal with the Mexican government that will bring them closer to their dream of reaching the United States.

The caravan left the southern city of Tapachula near Mexico's border with Guatemala in late October with some 3,000 people, but hundreds gave up the tough journey as they trekked on foot for weeks.