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Sarah Kinosian

Sarah Kinosian is a freelance journalist covering Mexico and Central America.

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THE LONG MARCH

Here’s How the Migrant Caravan ‘Crisis’ Really Began

It wasn’t supposed to be a big deal, but a TV station close to the Honduran gov’t wanted to embarrass an organizer and said he’d pay for everything. Then ‘the avalanche’ began.

Jeff Ernst

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