MEXICO CITY (Realist English). Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed regret that the United States allocates aid to the Ukraine more actively and faster than to the countries of Central America.
The Mexican leader blamed the American bureaucracy for delays in allocating funds to curb migration in Central America.
The U.S. Congress “just authorized resources for Ukraine and that’s fine because it’s their policy to protect Ukraine, they’ve decided that.… The United States Congress approved it in two days, I believe, but the support for our Central American brothers hasn’t been approved in four years,” López Obrador said.
On March 11, the US Congress finally approved a bill on the allocation of emergency aid to the Ukraine in the amount of $ 13.6 billion. Of this money, $3.5 billion will be used to pay for the supply of military equipment, and another $3 billion – for the deployment and maintenance of US troops who will be relocated to Eastern Europe in connection with Russia’s special operation in the Ukraine.
At a regular press conference, López Obrador said that at a meeting at the last meeting with the US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, he insisted on the need for US support for El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala to stop migration.
According to the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department, in 2021, the United States sent about $560 million in foreign aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
