Honduras talks to US Secretary of Security about TPS, Covid and Hurricanes

WASHINGTON, HONDURAS. –TPS, covid-19 and storms Eta and Iota, were some of the topics to be discussed by the Chancellor of the Republic, Lisandro Rosales. Placeholder image and the United States Secretary of Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, in Washington.

Rosales, along with other Honduran government ministers, is in the United States to develop a broad agenda for following up on the issues facing the country.

The Honduran Minister of Foreign Affairs has released a report on the damage in Honduras after the passage of these weather phenomena and that they are noticing the consequences of the pandemic of the COVID-19.

“We also talked a little bit about the issue of vaccines, about the difficulty the country has had in acquiring them,” he added.

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In the same way, they spoke about the migration issue, particularly the recent caravans, the efforts to address the causes and consequences of migration, and the fight against migrant smuggling.

“We discussed a number of measures to be taken in relation to the migration issue in order to identify those networks that are not only located in Central America, but also from South America, where people from outside the continent move through Central American territory to the US border, ”he said of what was being discussed.

“The Lord Alexander Mayorkas He expressed his interest in continuing to work with Honduras on these actions related to the immigration issue in general, ”emphasized Rosales.

Regarding bilateral relations between Honduras and the United States, Rosales assured that “they are in a very cordial moment. Let’s not forget that it is a new government, we are getting to know each other, but we have already generated trust mechanisms to keep working on the issues that interest us all, especially in the areas of national reconstruction, migration and hemispheric security ”.

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