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Weekly Report - 24 November 2016 (WR-16-46)
REGION: Rallying in the face of a Trump presidency
This week the foreign ministers of the so-called ‘Northern Triangle’ countries (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras), along with their Mexican peer, met in Guatemala City to firm up cooperation, particularly regarding migration. The meeting came a week after the three Northern Triangle presidents (El Salvador’s Salvador Sánchez Cerén, Guatemala’s Jimmy Morales, and Honduras’s Juan Orlando Hernández) announced that they had instructed their foreign ministers to draw up a joint position to provide the basis for relations with “new US authorities” following the 8 November electoral victory of US President-elect Donald Trump. Given that Trump’s campaign included hard-line proposals on stopping illegal immigration (building a wall on the border with Mexico and stepping up deportations), isolationist rhetoric, and economic protectionism, his victory has triggered widespread concern in Central America.
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