The announcement was made by the United States’ top diplomat, Antony Blinquen. It will help various countries that receive migrants, such as Colombia, El Salvador and Peru, among others.
A little over a month before the presidential elections, USA will allocate a million dollars to Latin American countries to help them host migrants. Secretary of State, Antony Blinkenannounced this Wednesday that they will disburse “more than 685 million dollars” to a migration alliance created in 2022 during the Summit of the Americas.
This announcement is not a coincidence. Migration is one of the central issues for the presidential elections on November 5 in the United States. With this sum, the Joe Biden government will exceed the figure of US$1.2 billion in 2024.
In 2022 was signed Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection to coordinate efforts to discourage forced migration and to assist Latin American countries that receive people forced to leave their countries due to various circumstances. Among the signatory nations are Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia and Central American countries.
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As he specified BlinkThe new funds “include nearly $369 million to help refugees, vulnerable migrant populations and host countries” and another $228 million in “emergency food” assistance for Venezuelan migrants and displaced persons in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, he said.
New technical secretariat to coordinate aid to migrants
The United States also announced on Wednesday the creation of a technical secretariat to oversee coordination between countries. Colombia will be the first in preside this office. It is “very important to move towards the institutionalization” of the migration alliance, stressed the Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luis Gilberto Murillo.
Colombia has welcomed almost 3 million Venezuelansof which 2.5 million have already been regularized and there are “500,000” in the process of regularization. Faced with this scenario, which is repeated in other countries, Murillo called for “expanding the ways of responding to migrants who are in transit to Colombia.”
Source: Ambito
