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Joe Biden entered the White House with some inspiring yet contradictory positions on immigration and Central America. He promised to reverse Donald Trump’s draconian anti-immigrant policies while, through his “Plan to Build Security and Prosperity in Partnership with the People of Central America,” restoring “U.S. leadership in the region” that he claimed Trump had abandoned. For Central Americans, though, such “leadership” has an ominous ring.
COVID-19 Recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Partnership Strategy for the Biden Administration In-Depth Research & Reports by Jason Marczak and Cristina Guevara
Foreword
From Mexico City to Manaus, the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. In March 2020, families in Guayaquil searched for coffins to bury their loved ones. In April and May, Venezuelans who had fled the Maduro dictatorship were forced to return home after having lost their jobs in neighboring countries. As someone who has spent fifteen years in Congress advocating for the United States to work more closely with our friends in Latin America and the Caribbean, I was deeply saddened as this region became an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
US Secretary of State and Honduras Foreign Minister had a positive and constructive conversation
USA and Honduras maintain strong bilateral relations
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TEGUCIGALPA, Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Honduran Foreign Minister Lisandro Rosales and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had a positive and constructive conversation maintaining the historically important bilateral relations between both countries.
Both top diplomates committed to work together on the efforts to rebuild Honduras in the aftermath of Hurricanes Eta and Iota s path of destruction and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Foreign Minister Rosales and Secretary Blinken reiterated their commitment to continue to work on the structural problems that lead Hondurans to migrate; to continue to strengthen the strategies and efforts to fight transnational crime, corruption, and violations of human rights.
Honduran army soldiers chase supporters of former President Manuel Zelaya after violence broke out following a military coup in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on June 29, 2009 [File AP/Eduardo Verdugo]
On November 1, just prior to the elections in the United States, US President Donald Trump tweeted with regard to his Democrat rival: “[Joe] Biden is a proven Castro puppet! Vote TRUMP.”
The tweet did not specify any Castro in particular, but it is likely the reference was to late iconic Cuban leader Fidel, a staunch critic of US imperial aggression in Latin America and capitalism in general – a system he accurately saw as perpetuating poverty.