Vice President Kamala Harris, whose public visibility in recent months had been rather scarce, is now raising her head with the presentation of a private investment plan amounting to 1,900 million dollars in Central America.
Joe Biden’s number two presented the plan this Tuesday, at the Summit of the Americas, which has been held in Los Angeles since Monday. A meeting, however, very lackluster due to the absence of eight heads of State or Government, among the 30 invited to the meeting. In a majority of cases, such as those of the Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador or the Honduran Xiomara Castro, the absentees declined to attend the meeting in protest against Joe Biden’s decision not to invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Apart from such important absences, the star of the summit should be a great pact with Latin America to stop the migratory crisis originating in the most disadvantaged areas of the continental south and with its epicenter on the border of Mexico and the United States.
Waiting for how this pact will materialize despite the absence of heads of state and even entire delegations from countries that are deeply involved in this crisis, such as Cuba, Vice President Kamala Harris presented this Tuesday that agreement with private companies to invest a total of 1.9 billion dollars in some of the poorest areas of the region.
The program focuses on El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, the main departure countries for migrant caravans heading north. The injection is added to the one already announced last December, for the same nations, for 1,200 million.
Multinationals such as PepsiCo, Microsoft, Nespresso and Visa participate in the plan, which according to the White House seeks to “create an ecosystem of opportunities and give hope to the people of the region so that they can build a prosperous and secure life in their land.”
Meanwhile, some 15,000 migrants left the Mexican federal state of Chiapas on Monday, heading for the border with the United States, in what is considered the largest or one of the most important human caravans of this type on the continent. The output coincided with the start of the Los Angeles summit.
The displaced, mostly Central Americans and Venezuelans, are targeting a new office of the National Migration Institute (INM) of Mexico where they can regularize their situation in Mexico because they do not get humanitarian visas at the entity’s representation in Chiapas. as reported by the Efe agency.
The walkers covered more than eight kilometers in the first section of their march, in which they passed without problem a first surveillance checkpoint made up of National Guard agents. The uniformed men just watched their progress.
