Central American migrant routes: Nicaragua’s closed-border policy pushes migrants to take desperate measures

Most of the would-be migrants are from Congo, Senegal and Togo, as well as others from Haiti and Cuba.
They then took the migrants, some of them suffering from exhaustion and sunstroke, to El Tamarindo’s evangelist church.
Nicaragua goes to the polls in November to elect a new president, a process that has been called a “farce” by opposition parties.
Local fishermen alerted residents in the nearby village of El Tamarindo, who brought water, food and blankets for the stranded migrants.
“Criminalizing people is a way of trying to silence the feelings that local people have shown toward these citizens of the world,” says Gonzalo Carrión of the Nicaragua Human Rights Center.

Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/12/inenglish/1476271748_615531.html