MEXICO CITY. Generating jobs and the social programs provided by the Mexican government are the way out to inhibit migration from Central America
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President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He insisted that the causes that generate poverty and violence must be addressed before persecuting the migrants who arrive in Mexico.
Social programs such as Sembrando Vida and Youth Building the Future are even being developed in Central America with resources from Mexico.
Here there are job opportunities, in the Ministry of Welfare, in Chiapas, there are employment opportunities, in Sembrando Vida, Youth Building the future. I tell you that we are financing these programs in El Salvador, Honduras, Belize, we are regarding to reach an agreement with the Guatemalan government, but it is financing from Mexico, solidarity, fraternal”, raised the head of the Executive
He regretted that the United States government has not yet authorized in its Congress the sending of resources to Central America to generate jobs.
López Obrador acknowledged that it is unlikely that these resources will be approved, since at the end of this year there will be elections in the United States and the management of the money is subject to political struggles.
I have raised it in the United States, but they take a long time to decide. We are doing what corresponds to us and we are going to continue insisting that the United States government act,” reiterated López Obrador.
He announced that in May he will tour Central America to address the issue of migration from those countries to Mexico and that in many cases the goal is to reach the United States.
We will be in May. El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and Cuba”, pointed out López Obrador.
While the morning press conference was taking place in the 4th Motorized Cavalry Regimentin Tapachula, migrants protested outside the military installations by chaining themselves to the fences and sewing their mouths.
MIGRANTS DEMONSTRATE FOR PROCEDURES
Latino migrants, who were blocking Akishino Boulevard to demand the delivery of immigration documents, were evicted by a group of Africans and Haitians, who were carrying clubs and stones, the persecution stopped in one of the streets behind the offices of the INM of the southern zone.
The Hondurans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans and Cubans had to flee from the aggression of the intercontinental fighters, because they outnumbered them. The group of Latinos expected to be served by immigration personnel, however, faced with the imposition of Africans and Haitians, they were displaced.
So they decided to block the boulevard, where they burned dry branches and threw stones.
The migrants have held protests in Tapachula to demand their procedures before the National Migration Institute; They say they are imprisoned, which is why they decided to protest in the military zone. Photo: Archyde.com
Faced with the situation, the Africans came carrying stones and sticks and evicted them and beat several of the Latino migrants, who had to withdraw to avoid confrontation and even formed several rows a block away to wait to be attended by migration.
Meanwhile, to demand that the Mexican government grant them humanitarian visas, a group of 200 migrants from Venezuela and Central America stitched their lips together outside the 36th military zone of Tapachula, where the President of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, offered his morning conference, before the start of a working tour of Chiapas.
-Gaspar Romero
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