Mexico City, September 18.- With the aim of making migration an option for the Central American peoples of the so-called Northern Triangle and the states of south-southeast Mexico, "not a necessity imposed by shortages," the executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) , Alicia Bárcena, presented the Comprehensive Development Plan yesterday at the Foreign Ministry . This is a set of strategies, public policies and projects that consider the aggravated displacement of multitudes from the south to the north not as a temporary phenomenon but as a structural condition.
The 19 development agencies of the United Nations and the four governments involved : Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico, are participating in the design and implementation of this plan, which Bárcena described as "a new-style framework."
It includes 15 thematic programs, 14 projects ready to be implemented , and will require an investment of 45 billion pesos over five years. It is designed to benefit 70 million people in the region.
The idea of creating options to settle populations currently driven to migrate by necessity , rather than walls to stop them, was first proposed in a plan signed by the leaders of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador who attended the inauguration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on December 1, 2018.
