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New Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the leaders of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras signed a development plan to reduce the number of people fleeing their country in search of A better life abroad.
The Integrated Development Plan for the Central North American Triangle, supported by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, aims to stimulate employment and well-being in developing countries. affected countries.
López Obrador won a landslide victory in July, promising to put Mexico's poor at the top of his agenda.
Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard tweeted the signing of the development plan.
The signing of the plan comes after Washington's threat to cut aid to countries that can not prevent illegal immigration. The saga of migrant caravans continues to make headlines in the United States.
Faced with the caravan of 6,000 migrants currently encamped on the border between the United States and Mexico and seeking refuge, the United States exerts increasing pressure on the countries of Central America.
The journey of thousands of miles traveled by migrants across Mexico has revived a debate in the United States on immigration and border control.
US President Donald Trump promised not to allow them to enter the country, especially after hundreds of people tried to enter the border last weekend.
Trump urges Mexico to accept an agreement on keeping migrants on the Mexican side of the border during the processing of their asylum applications. Ebrard is due to travel to Washington on Sunday (2) to discuss the issue with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Migrants say they flee violence and poverty in their country of origin.
The so-called "northern triangle", formed by Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, is one of the most dangerous regions in the world, with criminal gangs terrorizing local populations.
A profitable drug trade – many of which are smuggled into the United States – has also resulted in violent clashes between rival gangs. Local police forces are often powerless to deal with them and sometimes they themselves are involved in gangs.
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