Mexico to launch El Salvador jobs program under Central America development plan

FAN Editor
Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard attends a session with senators and lawmakers at the Senate building in Mexico City
FILE PHOTO: Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard attends a session with senators and lawmakers at the Senate building in Mexico City, Mexico June 14, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

June 19, 2019

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Mexico will launch a job creation program for El Salvador on Thursday as part of its Central America development plan geared at slowing illegal migration, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Wednesday.

Speaking in New York after a meeting at the United Nations, Ebrard also said that Mexico will announce figures on Thursday for investments planned in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. He added that Spain and Germany are among the countries that have backed the Central America development plan.

(Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon in Mexico City; Editing by Daniel Flynn)

Free America Network Articles

Leave a Reply

Next Post

Joy Harjo becomes first Native American poet laureate

Joy Harjo has made history as the first Native American be appointed U.S. poet laureate. Harjo was named as the nation’s 23rd poet laureate on Wednesday. Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, assumes a role that is tasked with raising the “national consciousness to a greater appreciation of […]