{"id":9355,"date":"2021-01-17T06:17:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T06:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/americas\/article\/3118064\/guatemala-tries-block-migrant-caravan-heading-us"},"modified":"2021-01-17T06:17:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T06:17:30","slug":"guatemala-tries-to-block-migrant-caravan-heading-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/17\/guatemala-tries-to-block-migrant-caravan-heading-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemala tries to block migrant caravan heading for US"},"content":{"rendered":"Guatemala on Saturday escalated efforts to stop thousands of Hondurans, many of them families with children, travelling in a migrant caravan bound for the United States just as a new administration is about to enter the White House.Up to 9,000 migrants have entered Guatemala since Friday, according to Guatemala\u2019s immigration authority, fleeing poverty and violence in a region battered by the coronavirus pandemic and back-to-back hurricanes in November.Videos showed Guatemalan security forces\u2026\n