Caravan migrants to rest, hope to win mass transport to Mexico City

JUCHITAN, Mexico — Thousands of weary Central American migrants in a caravan that has advanced 250 miles into Mexico but remains far from the U.S. border hope they won’t have to walk anymore, at least for a while.

Representatives of the group sought Wednesday to negotiate use of dozens of buses to carry the migrants hundreds of miles ahead, as the caravan took at least a day off from the grind of walking and hitching rides in packed trucks from small town to small town.

But as of the afternoon, there was no outward sign they’d had success in finding buses to carry them.