San José.— Although the United States agreed Mexico Guatemala Y Honduras implant one military wall and police to detain irregular migrants, Biden’s government met resistance from government authorities in the area to join the new immigration policy of the White House with the attack on corruption in the Northern triangle from American Center.
Social sources in the area revealed that after taking office on January 20, President Joe Biden informed the Triangle – Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador – that he was burying his predecessor’s attitude, Donald Trump, of being complacent with corruption and, in return, only asking them to lock up visa-free migrants traveling to the US.
“The Triangle is uncomfortable with Biden,” said Guatemalan sociologist Carmen Rosa de León, executive director of Guatemala’s (non-state) Institute of Education for Sustainable Development.
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All three would like to return Trump and their logic is to let Biden fail. No doubt Biden is sleeping with the enemy, ”De León explained THE UNIVERSAL after joining nongovernmental sectors of the isthmus this month in face-to-face or virtual hookups with White House emissaries to assess migration prospects.
“We cannot think that these three governments are delighted to receive the changes in US immigration policy, now based more on human security and that the root of the problem is corruption, as members of the Biden administration told us,” story. In response to these questions, the governments of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras have guaranteed that they will work with the United States to resolve migration issues.
Determined to prioritize curbing migrants over corruption, Trump never pressured Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández over his alleged connection to drug trafficking, which granted El Salvador special status in the immigration mess in 2019, and he also did not oppose the 2019 dissolution of a body against impunity and corruption in Guatemala.
The root causes of human insecurity and irregular migration (…) include shortcomings in democratic governance, (…) corruption United States Department of State.
The sources consulted by this newspaper indicated that Biden, of the Democratic Party, opted for the regional military and police agreement to show steadfastness in the face of the deterioration of the migration crisis on the southwest border and reject the hostility of the Republican Party
Republicans blamed Biden for the fact that, following his rise to the presidency and contrary to Trump and his anti-immigrant policies, uncontrollable entry into the United States by migrants, particularly Mexicans, Guatemalans, Hondurans, Salvadorans, Cubans and Haitians , took place. Things got worse with the arrival of unaccompanied minors.
They deny an agreement to strengthen borders
The US announced on Monday that Mexico will continue to deploy troops at the southern border, while Guatemala and Honduras have agreed to strengthen their military and police presence at border crossings to create a barrier for migrants. However, both Honduras and Guatemala have recently denied reaching an agreement on the matter.
The Guatemalan government clarified that the 1,500 troops referenced by White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki had been deployed since January before the arrival of migrating caravans. The Honduran government said agreements to mobilize more military “do not exist”. And one US official confined himself to pointing out that the Northern Triangle countries have already “deployed personnel” to “meet this shared challenge. [la migración]Without clarifying whether there was a recent agreement.
The truth is that Washington has fueled pressure on Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador so that the fight against corruption is a pillar of its plan to combat the migration phenomenon from the seed of socio-economic marginalization and violence and insecurity with an investment of about 4 billion euro. dollars.
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Fight
The US State Department yesterday announced an anti-corruption plan to enable civil society to “fight corruption” in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The root causes of human insecurity and irregular migration resulting from the Northern Triangle include deficiencies in democratic governance, criminal violence and endemic corruption.
“Attempts” in Guatemala and Honduras to prosecute corrupt actors were “undermined” by the cessation of anti-corruption missions, “which were replaced by national anti-impunity agencies with limited powers and insufficient political support to tackle rampant corruption,” he added to. .
With 20,000 troops Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras are trying to contain the migrants.
The statement referred to the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), established in 2006 with the approval of the United Nations and which ended in 2019 after exposing symbolic corruption since 2007.
Honduras has in 2020 the Mission to Support Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH), established in 2016 under the umbrella of the Organization of American States (OAS
The International Commission against Impunity in El Salvador (CICIES) was born in 2019 under an agreement between the Salvadoran government and the OAS and operates vulnerable.
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