00About 5,500 migrants from the gigantic caravan that left Honduras on October 13 had arrived in Mexico City by Wednesday (7), according to a count by the Mexican capital's Human Rights Commission.
The president of the Commission, Nashieli Ramírez, reported this estimate at a press conference held in a shelter for migrants set up in a sports center in the east of the city.
She explained that 86% of the migrants are Hondurans and the rest come from Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Some come from Panama and Costa Rica, she said.
The Commission and the town hall are in charge of coordinating help for the migrants in the shelter, which is overcrowded.
According to authorities, most of the first caravan has already arrived, although other groups are expected to arrive this week.
"The first flow of the second caravan could arrive next Saturday, November 10," said Ramírez.
At the shelter, they are waiting for the first caravan to determine when it will resume its journey to the northern border in the hope of making its way to the United States.
The second caravan is made up of around 2,000 people and a third caravan, of a similar size, is making its way through the south of the country.
The migrants in Mexico City, mainly women, children and the elderly, sleep in tents, while others occupy makeshift beds in the stands of a stadium.
They receive food, medical care, toiletries, diapers and clothes. The shelter has also received donations from residents of the capital.
Most of the migrants are determined to reach the United States, despite President Donald Trump's warnings that they will be prevented from entering and the deployment of 4,800 US military personnel to the border with Mexico.
More than half a million Central American migrants, fleeing poverty, lack of opportunities and gang violence, cross Mexico every year in the hope of reaching the United States.