MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico plans to promote job creation applications in the Caribbean that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has rolled out in southern Mexico and elements of Central America to stem migration, a senior authorities official was quoted as saying on Monday.
The applications, “Sembrando Vida,” (Sowing Life) a tree-planting drive, and “Jovenes Construyendo el Futuro,” (Youths Building the Future) a piece scheme for younger adults, are a part of Lopez Obrador’s plan to sluggish migration by serving to poor areas like southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
“We have already got an settlement with Haiti, and we’re in talks with Cuba,” Laura Elena Carrillo, Executive Director of the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (Amexcid), instructed newspaper El Universal in an interview.
Mexico and Cuba signed a letter of intent on Dec. 22 to implement rural growth applications in Cuba. That will embrace the 2 job-creating schemes, Carrillo mentioned. Mexico signed an identical letter with Haiti in November, and plans to negotiate with the Dominican Republic quickly, she instructed the paper.
Mexico has earmarked $31 million for every of the nations presently enrolled in the applications, although the Caribbean nations are doubtless to obtain considerably much less, Carrillo mentioned.
Apprehensions of undocumented migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border have leapt to file ranges this 12 months, with tens of 1000’s of Haitians and Cubans amongst them.
Mexico has pressed the United States to make investments in growth schemes, and the Mexican authorities mentioned final month Washington had agreed to contribute to its efforts https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-says-us-has-agreed-invest-help-tackle-migration-2021-11-19.
(Reporting by Kylie Madry; Editing by David Gregorio)
