Biden wants to give $4 billion in aid to Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to reduce migration, Mexico's president reveals

 Mexico's president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that Joe Biden told him the U.S. would send $4 billion to help development in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala - nations whose hardships have spawned tides of migration through Mexico toward the United States.

López Obrador, who spoke Friday with Biden by phone, said the two discussed immigration and the need to address the root causes of why people migrate.

Mexico has stopped recent attempts by caravans of Central American migrants to cross Mexico.


Biden's call with López Obrador also came at a tense moment - days after the Mexican president accused the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of fabricating drug trafficking charges against the country´s former defense secretary.

Offer: Mexico's president Andrés Manuel López Obrador - known by his initials AMLO - said Joe Biden told him he wanted to get $4 billion in aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador
Offer: Mexico's president Andrés Manuel López Obrador - known by his initials AMLO - said Joe Biden told him he wanted to get $4 billion in aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador

Offer: Mexico's president Andrés Manuel López Obrador - known by his initials AMLO - said Joe Biden told him he wanted to get $4 billion in aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador

Dispersed: A migrant caravan which tried to make its way north from Honduras to Guatemala was broken up just 30 miles across the Guatemalan border last week, before Biden's inauguration

Dispersed: A migrant caravan which tried to make its way north from Honduras to Guatemala was broken up just 30 miles across the Guatemalan border last week, before Biden's inauguration

Guatemala sends migrants in US-bound caravan back to Honduras
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While Mexico continues to pledge to block mass movements of Central American migrants toward the U.S. border, there has been no shortage of potential flashpoints between the two countries.

Mexico demanded the return of former Defense Secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos after he was arrested in Los Angeles in October, threatening to restrict U.S. agents in Mexico if he wasn't returned. U.S. prosecutors agreed to drop charges and return Cienfuegos to Mexico.

But Mexico passed a law restricting foreign agents and removing their immunity anyway, and went on to publish the U.S. case file against Cienfuegos, whom Mexican prosecutors quickly cleared of any charges.

López Obrador said in a statement Friday that the conversation with Biden was 'friendly and respectful.'

The White House said Biden mentioned 'reversing the previous administration´s draconian immigration policies.'

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