Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Saturday that his American counterpart, Joe Biden, had informed him that he was going to allocate 4 billion dollars in aid to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
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" spoke by phone Friday afternoon with Joe Biden on bilateral issues, mainly on immigration, a point on which the two heads of state are in agreement on the need to act through better economic development countries of Central America, according to Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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I think that aid should be provided directly (...) to the people of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
I don't think I'm indiscreet in saying that President Biden told me he was going to allocate $ 4 billion to support these three countries,
”the left-wing Mexican president said.
Immigration
Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador also thanked Joe Biden for pledging to regularize millions of undocumented migrants in the United States, including a significant number of Mexicans.
Since 2018, thousands of Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence in their country have tried to reach the United States, via Mexico, to enter illegally or to seek asylum.
More than a dozen human caravans attempted unsuccessfully to reach the border between the United States and Mexico.
The last of them, made up of some 9,000 Hondurans, was stopped by the Guatemalan police, just about fifty kilometers from the border with Honduras.
Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador had a close relationship with outgoing President Donald Trump but was one of the last leaders in the world to congratulate Joe Biden on his electoral victory.
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