Mexico agreed Friday to expand support to other Latin American and Caribbean nations as part of a regional migratory response, days before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office with a promise to carry out mass deportations.
The aid was announced by Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs Juan Ramón de la Fuente after a two-day closed meeting with ministers and representatives of 11 countries of the region.
The meeting – led by De la Fuente and the Honduran foreign minister in the Mexican capital – was the latest in a series of regional summits aimed at building a comprehensive regional response to the unprecedented levels of migration across the Americas. Government leaders of Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Venezuela, Brazil, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador participated.
