|
?:reviewBody
|
-
In October 2018, a number of hoaxes were circulated about a caravan of Central American asylum seekers making their way north from Honduras to the Mexico-United States border. So when a video of caravan members tearing down a border fence went viral, many viewers were skeptical about what it showed: This video is real, although it shows activity taking place along the border between Mexico and Guatemala (not Mexico and the United States) and features members of a smaller caravan (not the main caravan that has garnered so much press attention in the U.S.). We haven't been able to find the original source for this clip, but a photograph from Getty Images confirms that this video was taken along the border of Guatemala and Mexico on 28 October 2018. A comparison of the Getty photograph (right) and a still from the video (left) shows many of the same people from the caravan pushing on the border fence: The Getty Images photograph was captioned as follows: Several people shared this footage with captions noting that it was filmed on Mexico's border. While this description is technically accurate, it may have misled some viewers into believing that the events seen on the video were captured along the border between the United States and Mexico -- but Ciudad Tecun Uman, where this video was shot, is more than 1,000 miles from the United States. Moreover, the people seen in this video were not members of the main caravan that drew so much attention in the U.S., but a much smaller group trailing in its wake. Newsweek reported that migrants clashed with police shortly after this border gate was ripped down, with one asylum seeker killed in the melee and dozens more injured:
(en)
|
![[This page as RDF]](http://data.gesis.org/claimskg/static/rdf-icon.gif){kind=icon}