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US aid cuts 'hit Central America's poorest'
File photo: A girl walks amid garbage from La Terminal food market in Guatemala City.
By Anastasia Moloney/ Bogota
From drought-hit farmers and hungry children to battered women, tens of thousands of people in Central America have been hard hit by US government aid cuts, according to major charities.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — known as the Northern Triangle — was slashed and frozen by US President Donald Trump’s administration in June.
Trump has criticised these countries for failing to stop the flow of migrants and asylum seekers, many fleeing gang violence and poverty, looking for better lives in the US.
Trump has made reducing illegal immigration one of his signature policy pledges, both during his presidential campaign and almost three years in the White House.
The US Congress is weighing legislation on foreign aid assistance to Central America for 2020, with voting expected by November.
The US state department is moving forward with Trump’s plan to cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, providing only limited funding focused on security and justice, a state department official said in an e-mailed response to the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
More:
https://www.gulf-times.com/story/643505/US-aid-cuts-hit-Central-America-s-poorest
