Mexico wants US backing for Central America development plan to stem migration

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he had ordered his foreign minister to seek a pact with the United States, Canada and ...

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MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday that he had ordered his foreign minister to seek a pact with the United States, Canada and other nations in support of a development plan for Central America to control immigration.

Lopez Obrador said US President Donald Trump had made a commitment for US investment in Central America and Mexico, and had shown interest in his push for economic development over security aid, but that the next step was to sign an agreement."We no longer want cooperation for security forces. We don't want the Merida plan, we don't want helicopters mounted with machine guns.

Lopez Obrador has said he wants the United States to ditch the Merida Initiative that deploys millions of dollars for security programs in Mexico in favour of more development assistance. However, Trump earlier this year ordered an end to US aid to Central America over rising numbers of immigrants. He threatened to impose tariffs if Mexico does not do more to stop the flow of mostly Central Americans reaching the US southern border, the biggest wave in a decade.

Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said in December that Washington was committing US$5.8 billion to development in Central America and increasing public and private investment in Mexico via the Overseas Private Investment Corporation by US$4.8 billion.In a partial rollback of the aid cut last week, US Attorney General William Barr said Washington would continue funding police forces in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

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