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U.S., Supporting Mexico's Plan, Will Invest $5.8 Billion in Central America
The United States, joining an effort by Mexico, will commit to investing billions in Central America in hopes of ending the poverty, violence and drug-trafficking that are driving thousands of people in the region to undertake the difficult trek to the United States, the State Department announced on Tuesday.
Mexico's new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, introduced what he called a "Marshall Plan" last week to address the root causes of Central American migration: a $30 billion initiative to invest in the region and welcome migrants into Mexico with visas, health care and employment.
On Tuesday, the Trump administration signaled its support for the plan, saying it was committing $5.8 billion in private and public investments in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Much of that amount, however, was previously committed or contingent on the identification of "commercially viable projects."
Also at The Washington Post and The Hill.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @11:02PM (1 child)
Very convenient that we now have men and women in uniform to assist, now that Trump has pulled them out of our Middle Eastern quagmires.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @03:41PM
I seem to recall a bunch of U.S. assets down there being appropriated a few years back. It is only an "investment" if the guy getting the money actually has a reason to give it back. And if it is enough money, then the Congress can be relied on to send the sons of midwestern farmers to shitholes around the world to die on behalf of a few mobbed up wallstreet bankers.
It is what it is. The way to fix it is to stop voting for the uniparty.