San Salvador, El Salvador
The President of the Savior, Here’s to see, He noted Wednesday that the United States “should abandon the concept of the Northern Triangle,” “if it wants to seriously address immigration on the southern border.”
Bukele thus reacted to a thread of tweets from Washington Post journalist Nick Miroff, who posted that “much of the conversation about border solutions is based on the idea of a violent and undifferentiated mass called the Triangle of the United States. North, but this thinking is increasingly divorced from the current reality of Central American migration. “
“If the United States wants to seriously address immigration at the southern border, it should really abandon the concept of the northern triangle and start working with its all-time partners to push for PROVEN solutions,” the Salvadoran president said. on his Twitter.
Miroff shared data on migrants, including children, from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, countries in the so-called Northern Triangle, in different years and makes a comparison of the figures.
“Honduras remains unstable, with entrenched gang violence, deep poverty, poor rural harvests and now devastating hurricane damage. Many Hondurans see migration almost as a form of protest, a rejection of the country’s political elite, which has increasingly obvious links to drugs, “he said.
As for Guatemala, he noted that “it has the most developed smuggling networks, a high unemployment rate and a young population. Coyotes (traffickers) in rural areas have been capitalizing on the desire for family reunification, the failures of the ‘subsistence agriculture amid drought and climate change’.
On El Salvador he stated that “migratory waves have largely responded to the violence and insecurity of gangs in recent years and the popular government of Bukele, despite authoritarian tendencies, seems to be showing that security improvements reduce emigration “.
Bukele recently reaffirmed that insecurity is one of the main reasons for the migration of Salvadorans to different destinations, mostly to the United States.
“The main reasons for migration are insecurity and lack of economic opportunities. Migration will only decrease if we resolve these two things,” the president said in an interview with Fox News.
Despite a significant drop in violence in recent years, El Salvador is besieged by the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) and Barrio 18, which also owns the Southern faction, consisting of about 60,000 members distributed in more than 600 cells nationwide and to whom the majority of recorded homicides are attributed.
These gangs are also credited with the forced displacement of citizens living in populated or rural areas of the Central American country.
According to Bukele, “people don’t want to leave home or leave their families, but the lack of opportunities and security makes them have to leave.”
According to records from the General Directorate of Migration, among the reasons that motivate irregular migration in the Central American country are the search for better living conditions, family reunification and violence.