English Analysis on Honduras and 4 other countries about Health, Protection and Human Rights, Epidemic, Flood and more; published on 10 Jun 2021 by MPI
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Summary: The Global Fragility Act offers the United States a unique opportunity. It aims to improve global security and reduce the threat of conflict spillover by crafting a holistic way of working with fragile states.
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U.S. President Joe Biden’s new administration has inherited a series of astounding challenges. But it was also handed at least one opportunity the Global Fragility Act (GFA) passed in late 2019 with an unusual amount of bipartisan and civil society support. Its goal was to improve global security and reduce the threat of conflict spillover by crafting a holistic way of working with fragile states. Whether the GFA’s new approach is considered a success will hinge on the achievements of the first set of countries in which it is launched. Achievement can’t be determined by
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Harris, White House betting on Guatemala to help stem migrant influx
The Biden administration is most optimistic about working with Guatemala because it’s willing to talk about the tough issues. And it’s not Honduras or El Salvador.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will take her first international trip in office in early June to meet with the presidents of Guatemala and Mexico. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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Vice President Kamala Harris is looking for leaders to partner with in the region known as the Northern Triangle to curb migration to the United States. There aren’t a lot of options.
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Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala make up a group of countries known as the “Northern Triangle” in Central America. They are all corrupt. They are all violence-infested. They all have hundreds of thousands of citizens who have left, are leaving, or are planning to leave for the United States.
Illegal immigrants from those three countries make up the lion’s share of the human wave coming to America. Vastly limiting those numbers is the key to getting a handle on the border crisis.
Joe Biden named Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the administration’s diplomatic efforts to deal with the border crisis. But outreach to Mexico has failed and there has been no high-level contact between the U.S. and the governments of Honduras and El Salvador.
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An activist from the ruling Partido Nacional (National Party) holds the identification of a woman to register on a list to receive help from the government foe the people affected by the floods caused by hurricanes Eta and Iota, in El Progreso, Honduras March 27, 2021. REUTERS/Yoseph Amaya
Reuters- Bags of rice and beans arrived in a tough neighborhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ second-largest city, with government aid for poor residents struggling during a coronavirus lockdown in April 2020.
Cesar López and his hungry family got nothing. The food, he said, went only to supporters of the ruling National Party, which he opposes. He said it’s much the same for government jobs and other benefits.