U.S. officials have said the Biden management approach is the opposite of what it was in the Trump administration (with which Bukele had an affinity), where they prioritized stopping the flow of migration and downplaying the causes.
President Nayib Bukele suggested in the United States on Wednesday that he “should abandon the concept of the ‘Northern Triangle'” to address the issue of migration at the southern border.
Bukele reacted in this way to a thread of tweets from Washington Post journalist Nick Miroff, who published that “much of the conversation about border solutions is based on the idea of a violent and undifferentiated mass. called the Northern Triangle, but this thinking is increasingly divorced from the current reality of Central American migration. “
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“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 president wrote in through your Twitter account.
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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.
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“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 farming 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 “.
U.S. officials have reiterated that the new administration’s approach is diametrically opposed to that of Donald Trump’s previous government, with which Bukele had an affinity, where they focused exclusively on stopping the flow of migrants and bring importance to the causes of this mass exodus of people, such as a solid institutionalization, transparency and create opportunities
Congressman Torres: “Many migrants are escaping ‘narcogobiernos'”
This Wednesday, Democratic Congresswoman Norma Torres attributed the rise of unaccompanied minors and irregular migrants to the “corrupt and failed” governments of the North Central American Triangle countries.
In a video posted on her Twitter account, the lawmaker said she was heading to Carrizo Springs, a Texan city a few miles from major U.S.-Mexico border points, “to investigate the conditions facing children who they travel alone “to the northern country. These are, for the most part, of Central American origin.
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The Democratic congresswoman also noted that “this is a crisis created by drug governments and corrupt and failed leaders” in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
The U.S. government has already signaled that it does not plan to tolerate corrupt governments in the region. Specifically, U.S. officials have withdrawn their commitment to punish corruption and human rights violations in El Salvador.
Recently, the administration of Joe Biden appointed Ricardo Zúñiga, a Honduran and career diplomat with extensive experience, as a special envoy for the Northern Triangle.
Zúñiga’s mission will be to lead diplomatic efforts in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras and to advise the White House on how to conduct resources and programs aimed at reducing irregular migration.
Bukele said recently 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 solve 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 gangs to which most of the homicides recorded are attributed. These criminal structures are also credited with the forced displacement of citizens living in populated or rural areas.
According to records from the General Directorate of Migration, among the reasons that motivate irregular migration to El Salvador are the search for better living conditions, family reunification and violence.
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