Posted on 12/18/2018 11:58:11 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
MEXICO CITY - The United States is committing billions of dollars toward development in Central America and Mexico, as part of a plan to strengthen economic growth in the region and curb illegal immigration, the U.S. and Mexican governments said on Tuesday.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been seeking to persuade U.S. counterpart Donald Trump to work with Mexico to develop Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, as well as Mexico’s poorer south to stem the flow of migrants.
However, Trump’s threats to slash aid to the region if illegal immigration was not contained have persistently raised doubts about how much the United States would stump up.
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said the United States is committing $5.8 billion toward development in Central America. It is also increasing public and private investment in Mexico by $4.8 billion via the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), $2 billion of which would go to the south.
Speaking as the U.S. State Department issued a statement setting out the commitments, Ebrard said that the Mexican government had pledged to find $25 billion to develop the south of the country during the next five years.
“The agreements established here mean more than doubling the foreign investment in the south of Mexico from 2019,” the minister told a news conference in Mexico City.
All told, the deal between the two presidents represented commitments of $35.6 billion for Central America and southern Mexico from next year, Ebrard said on Twitter.
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So...in other words, the immigrant invasion’s demand for $50,000 each in reparations is being met. That certainly didn’t take long. I guess the current administration had to work out a way to make it palatable.
And the billions will go to the corrupt governments just like it has in the past and the poor folk will continue to live in abject poverty.
Yep.
Once you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.
Don’t promise MORE money. Threaten to stop what we already send and cut off what they already get in reparations if they don’t stop the invasion.
Exactly, until the corruption is rooted out we might as well be flushing this money down the toilet.
But there’s no funding for the wall. We’re not voting our way out of this mess folks.
Sounds like extortion to me.
...and the libtards will accuse Trump of “colonialism” in 3..2..1...
You gotta be kidding
Attacking the problem at its source is way overdue
Make Central America a free enterprise zone, build an economy, grow a middle class, and millions will stay home
Or go home
Now we know what the caravans are all about.
Well thats it for trump as far as I am concerned. Just another New York liberal at heart.
Make one of the conditions of the aid that THEY have to build the wall on the MEXICAN side!
that NEVER works!
The local governments are just too damned corrupt, and the level of education of the locals too low.
Whatever U.S. foreign aid to those sh*thole countries should have been cut to zero as soon as the crooked leaders down there launched this invasion. The money does not go to poor people anyway.
SADLY, you are correct.
NOT WINNING.
Not at all, he better get it together, stop the nonsense. He should unleash on the deep state early next year. We will see if he is up to the moment.
If this is true, we may be seeing 2020 go bye-bye. Unfathomable announcement, especially in light of Trump getting trumped by RINOs to deny the wall. He’d better deny this outright by the end of the day.
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