On the second day of his tour of Central America and the Caribbean, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador visited El Salvador and Honduras.
In the three messages that he offered after meeting with his counterparts from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, the president has asked the United States to speed up the delivery of promised resources for Central America.
“We need the United States to become clearly involved in solving a problem that affects it and to help finance these programs,” said the president after the meeting with Xiomara Castro.
The Mexican president said that as countries that send, transit and receive migrants, both Central America and Mexico and the United States must contribute to attention to migration.
“We are transit territory and we are aware of the risk and suffering that this transit represents for many Honduran, Guatemalan, Salvadoran brothers and sisters and for all citizens of other countries. That is why we have been insisting on the relevance of applying social programs like the ones we have been applying for three years in our country”, he said.
In the morning, he met with Nayib Bukele with whom he agreed to double the support currently granted by the Sembrando Vida and Jovenes Construyendo el Futuro programs from 10,000 to 20,000 beneficiaries.
The president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, spoke out in favor of dealing with migration from its causes, and announced that that nation will host the Ministerial Conference on Migration to be held in the second half of this year. “Migration is a human right, it is not a crime,” she said.
