(Oct. 24, 2014) On September 25, 2014, high ranking government officials from the Justice Departments of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and the United States met in Mexico City in order to create a proposal for the Attorneys General of those countries, concerning a common plan aimed at combating the trafficking of unaccompanied migrant children […]
Topic: Human trafficking, Immigration, International affairs
Jurisdiction: Central America, Mexico, United States
Author: Gustavo Guerra
(Oct. 16, 2014) On September 23, 2014, the Foreign Ministers of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras submitted to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry a regional plan to boost economic growth in poor countries and thus slow the exodus of their citizens to the United States. (Centroamérica Presenta un Plan para Frenar el Éxodo de […]
Topic: Immigration, International affairs
Jurisdiction: Central America
Author: Norma Gutierrez
(Sept. 30, 2014) In September 2014, attorneys general from Mexico, the United States, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras met in Mexico City to discuss strategies aimed at improving safety throughout Central America, in order to tackle the circumstances that contribute to the flow of migrant children who have been arriving at the United States southwest […]
Topic: Human trafficking, Immigration, International affairs
Jurisdiction: Central America, Mexico, United States
Author: Gustavo Guerra
(July 8, 2014) In June 2014, authorities from Mexico, the United States, Canada, and the Central American countries met in Nicaragua for the XIX Vice-Ministerial Meeting of the Regional Conference on Migration (a multilateral forum on international immigration) and announced that they had reached an agreement (the Managua Extraordinary Declaration) on a number of measures […]
Topic: Immigration, International affairs, Undocumented immigrants
Jurisdiction: Canada, Central America, Mexico, United States
Author: Gustavo Guerra
(Mar. 2, 2008) The presidents of the five Central American republics that make up the Central American Integration System (SICA) signed an agreement in Guatemala City, on December 12, 2007, on the establishment of a customs union to create a free trade zone in the region. The document has to be ratified by the congresses […]
Topic: Commerce
Jurisdiction: Central America
Author: Norma Gutierrez
