The Trump administration appears to be conditioning coronavirus assistance in Central America on immigration policy
When it comes to supplying ventilators and other coronavirus aid to Central America, Trump administration officials say they are not playing favorites.
The United States doesn’t share a border with Honduras or El Salvador, so Trump was presumably referring to agreements in which those countries have pledged to take back migrants and asylum-seekers.For Guatemala, however, which is facing a similar or worse coronavirus threat, Trump had no offers of support.
“There isn’t some hard linkage here between cooperation on removals and ventilators,” he said in a briefing with reporters. “We’re trying to get medicine and medical supplies to anybody who needs them, including countries that we have not particularly good relations with.Trump also wrote a charitable tweet to Lenin Moreno, president of Ecuador, although he initially misspelled the name of the hard-hit country, again offering ventilators.
Many Salvadorans worry that Bukele’s actions are a throwback to the country’s militarized, undemocratic past. The country endured a 12-year civil war, which ended in 1992, in which the United States backed a brutal right-wing government and its army.More than 2,000 Salvadorans have been rounded up in recent days and placed in holding facilities because they violated social distancing rules, even as detention in overcrowded facilities violates the same rules.
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