{"id":25138,"date":"2018-12-11T18:22:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T18:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25138"},"modified":"2018-12-11T18:22:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T18:22:53","slug":"an-untold-reason-for-the-migrant-caravan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25138","title":{"rendered":"An untold reason for the migrant caravan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Cop\u00e1n, Honduras (CNN)<\/cite>Each night after her husband left, Delmi Amparo Hern\u00e1ndez walked to a neighbor&#8217;s house to look for him on the TV news. He had fled their mountaintop community here in rural Honduras without a phone because no one in the family could afford one. Their floor was made of dirt, they grew their own food. Watching coverage of the migrant caravan heading for the United States was Hern\u00e1ndez&#8217;s only way to know if he was alive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">What she saw in the broadcasts were visions from hell. Families jumping from bridges, getting kidnapped along dusty roads, dodging tear gas cannons fired by police from richer nations. How could this be? She continued scanning, hoping to find him, hoping not to. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">She had begged Germ\u00e1n Ram\u00edrez not to go, but her 30-year-old husband had his reasons. The town&#8217;s corn and bean crops had failed during a years-long drought. There was no work aside from farming. No money for irrigation. Their four children, ages 3 to 13, had little to eat.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cop\u00e1n, Honduras (CNN)Each night after her husband left, Delmi Amparo Hern\u00e1ndez walked to a neighbor&#8217;s house to look for him on the TV news. He had fled their mountaintop community here in rural Honduras without a phone because no one in the family could afford one. Their floor was made of dirt, they grew their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}