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Weekly Report - 12 March 2015 (WR-15-10)
REGION: Biden back in the region
US Vice President Joseph Biden paid a visit last week to Guatemala City where he met President Otto Pérez Molina along with his Northern Triangle peers, El Salvador’s Salvador Sánchez Cerén and Honduras’s Juan Orlando Hernández. The meeting was aimed at advancing implementation of the ‘Alliance for Prosperity Plan (PAP)’ which, launched in November 2014 in cooperation with the US and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), seeks to tackle the root causes of the child migrant crisis which made international headlines last year. As well as unveiling concrete commitments vis-à-vis the PAP, Biden’s visit also attracted attention due to remarks he made which reignited speculation regarding the future of the United Nations (UN)-backed anti-impunity commission in Guatemala (Cicig), whose mandate is due to expire in September.
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