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Obama budget to include $1 billion for Central America - Reuters
Jan 29, 2015 - ... budget on Monday will include $1 billion in new aid for Central America as part of a ... Guatemala's President Otto Perez Molina gives his annual state of the ... last year of tens of thousands of illegal migrants from Honduras, ...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...0L22M920150130
Congress and State Department at odds over $55 million in aid for ...
Oct 25, 2016 - Press Releases · Staff Directory · Giving ... For Honduras to receive its portion of about $55 million, however, it had to prove to U.S. ... "Over the past 25 years, the United States has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in aid ... put Vice President Joe Biden in charge of it, and last year asked for $1 billion.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-fg-...nap-story.html
Drug Money: Obama's Reckless $1 Billion Payout to Central America ...
Feb 18, 2015 - It's not clear how giving $1 billion to Central American governments would somehow ... counternarcotic campaigns against the cartels using U.S. aid, as occurred in Mexico. ... In 2014, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras combined spent ... the revenues of TCOs could reach up to $39 billion annually.
https://www.cato.org/publications/co...entral-america
Billions in U.S. Aid to Honduras Saw Little Long-Term Success - WSJ
Jul 2, 1997 - U.S. economic aid to Honduras has dropped to $28 million this year from .... In Danli, Mayor Avila gives his new benefactors their due when ...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB867794258364763500
Obama's Billion Dollar Aid Request to Central America: How Has it ...
Nov 17, 2015 - Last February, the Obama administration requested US$1 billion in 2016 assistance for Central America as part of next year's foreign aid budget proposal. ... the “Northern Triangle” countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. ... The White House request had sought to give this program the largest ...
https://www.wola.org/analysis/obamas...as-it-changed/
7 Reasons to Scrap the $1 Billion Aid Package to Central America
Jul 8, 2015 - This summer, Congress will decide whether to support the $1 billion aid package to Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras. ... last year, the “Strategy for Engagement in Central America” aims to ... fact that the aid package “only” gives about a third of the entire package to the countries' militaries.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2...entral-america
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