Honduras.- President Andrés Manuel López Obrador emphasized that the U.S. government has to get involved in a “clear way” with the administrations of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras in order to provide a solution to migratory phenomenon which has intensified in recent years.
In recent months, after the inauguration of the president of the United States, Joe Bidenthousands of Central American migrants have been intercepted by Mexican authorities, mainly in the southern and northern border states.
During his visit to Honduras last Friday, May 6, where he met with President Xiomara CastroPresident López Obrador maintained that his administration is focused on the “generation of well-being” in order to prevent citizens from emigrating to other countries in search of greater economic and employment opportunities.
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“In Mexico, my government is committed to a project of development and generation of well-being to root those who today have no other choice but to abandon it to the land,” the federal president remarked in a message to the media.
In this sense, he stressed that in order to implement social programs such as Youth Building the Future and Sowing Life In the Central American countries, with the aim of containing the migration of these nations, the will of these countries alone is not enough, but the United States needs to be clearly involved in finding a way to solve the problem of the flow of undocumented immigrants.
“The will of the Latin American countries is not enough for this, we also need the United States to become clearly involved in solving a problem that also affects it, and to help finance these programs,” he said.
In this framework, the Mexican head of state, once again as he did from El Salvador, urged the Biden administration to support with economic resources the implementation and permanence of social programs in Central America.
Meanwhile, he acknowledged that his government is aware that the mexican republic is a transitory country for thousands of migrants of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, emphasizing the dangers to which they are exposed when entering the national territory.
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“We are aware of the suffering and the risk that this transit represents for many Honduran, Guatemalan, and Salvadoran brothers and sisters,” he said.
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