better, we will be there. cox supports c-span along with the television providers giving you a front-row seat to democracy. >> next a conversation on migration and u.s. strategy loot economic development and equality in central america, education and labor and working with governments in the region . this event was hosted by the inter-american dialogue. .. ..■ a reflection

of our shared understanding of the need toddresshe drivers of migration. today's conversation about the rootrogv cause is especially critical at this moment. election-year the issue ofion iy politicized and policy sc limitedouthern border overshadowed the need for the root causes of molecular migration which as we have learned over decades isnllong-t. i was serving and the obama/biden administration alongside many of today's speakers u.s. strategy for engagement in central america was launched in

which will wreck sinew to move beyond reactivere framework that tackles the the time the ss on three pillars in the t countries of northern centraln america el salvador, quando guatemalduras the three pillars or combating poverty promoting shared prosperity, fostering good governance and combating corruption staggering levels of crime and violence. administration a strategy was renamed root cause a strategy very w fittingly and expanded to , combating based violence clime resilience and environmental attainabilithe opportunity stock of this strategy the lessons we have for the past decade from its implementa.t worked and as important, what has not worked. cifferently?

what can we do better? after today's pel incident inset migration goes far beyond our southern border it is eight hemisphere wide issue no single country can issue it on its own is something ricardo will6ñ hopefully address i think you're planning to dress as well. because ultimateltion about addg the root cause must go beyond centralrim2 countries in the caribbean, and in south america.■( to moderate our panel we are so fortunate to haveardo with deep experience in the region. deep experience in particular in central america. ricardo i a found partner and he servedareer member of the foreign service for 30 years and multiple high-level positions that are very related to today's conversation.■s he served principal deputy assistant secretary of state for

western hemisphere affairs. u.s. special envoy for the northern triangle and also serve u.s. counsel general. from 2012 until 2015 this is a time for iti launched, ricardo's detail from the state department tohe t national security council he served as a president obama's principal advis senior directorr western hemisphere affairs. with that i will turn it over to you, ricardo. thank you so much for being here. cooks thank you. rebecca, thank youo so much for at main point i hope folks will take away from that as you know who to■' bng over the last decade in terms of u.s. policy toward central america. to her excellent panel we have here today it really is a top-notch panel.

i thank you very much for theicg together this group. it's an incredibly irrelevant back and it's very important to do exactly that. takeck assessment of what has gone improve. i'm also very lucky after left the government to be at the u.s. institute of peace for peace about us also give me an opportunity to continue to ask these difficult questions about consequential area of the united states in the americas. one thing i really noticed it when i was sti world but in u.s. and washington policy circles disssion of central america thoughts went to the southwest border and it was a challenge for us to look beyond that. rebecca you flagged thateq

correctly. it is a comprehensive set of problems. there's also that we've seen realized. it's also important for us as we look forward to think not just about u.s. policy componentu the agency that exists. i'm as well as the challenges that. that are long-standing and influenced by geoli forces as well. so with that will jump to the event we are. electorally lucky to have a great■é g here. i'm going to work for eric jacobson the bureau of central america print western hemisphere affairs excuse me. for me there crican affairs but c the western administrator bureau for latin

america and the caribbeantusaid. we have molly associate deputy undersecretary for international affairs the department ofs labr probe program director and thank you so much to all of you. why don't we go rget to the dis. i'm going to start eric, wit you. what do you do as a representative of the united states when governments move in directions that run contrary to the objectives of the str the u.s. has invested so much in but really isnt on to help improve conditions. correct thank you so much■c panl given all that leadership on central america this incredible group

and thank you rebecca for your leadership in all think central america hear the dialogue. for some as they were part of the progress of the root cause of strategy over the past three years which is a tough set of issues were not naïve about t bd including governance which is the core of what weer do. i'm driving success and a number of areas across the five pillars of the strategy. rebecca mentioned the pillars last time around. this time around we focus on gender-based violence aillar onl rights. recognizing how critical those as drivers of regular to get right to it ricardo's question, yes about government contrary to foreign policy goals. my view on this is it is really

critical to remain present, agic moments. to m t guatemala we engage to recant and on universal principles we see things trending the wrong direction. summer it's a country previousl. now in a significantly improved track. one where i view an accident of history u leading the country to address democratic transition. they had determined ricardo would make it to tl election they would've blocked him from doinge$ so. by remaining engaged and present u.s. was able to work with local partners to and fair election process free and fair second round and then to support the guatemalan people at every turn corrupt elements teelection itself in this case

u.s. support assistance mattered a great deal so to dinner other tools. including u rv set revocation authorities. u.s. partnerships also mattered. do not forget critical role of only as electoral observers and also putting in place their own sanctions. this is theime and had resources on the ground to have an i would say, especially throughout the region remains challenge. it's been a huge a challenge an obstacle to process through the country. i'm police or other tools out there to deal with some the issues we have concerning the judiciary. sending an observation mission we think of it on its leadership

in terms of monitoring elections. sending the first oéú&■[ through october that will observe theic process. a how important it is for this the attorneys general played the judges play movingt forward.ust. >> finally let me say on guatemala for a quick wordal abt the other countries before passing on. being present, being agile in those moments allowed us to get to the t moments we are today we lot of momentum for the u.s. is going all in fvel hc dialogue earlier this year the presen with the president guatemala hosted los angeles meeting on migration secretary was in guatemala engagements have met all levels is a real

opportunity to collaborateor wih this government to find ways democracy can deliver. i woulday briefly this promising collaboration across the board l signed the first ever compact on gender-based violence. it's a huge driver of migration in the economic front worki fret logistics corridor which is much needed. in el salvador were working to advance secure technologie i 5g looking to partner to find a path back to security with the presstiu■ which is obviously critical. look forward into digging and more on t there are real opportunities if we stay engaged and sayt the right moments.>> >> moment. >> thank you so much.a you mentioned a couple of times part o this engagement has been on the economic front. suddenly i usaid spent a great

deal of time on front as well it's about opportunity andn n hope when yu talk a root causes and drivers of migration. i would ask two of thoughts on some of the economic areas of engagement■ were that u.s. has learned how to promote opportunity using local resources and multilateral os. michael, let me serve you and then u molly. >> thanks ricardo. how about now? all right. thanks for the invitation. it's great to back of the up the

dialogue for this conversation. and to do so in such distinguished company. we are proud of the progress■o we've made. challenges still to address. may be principal among them at least based on what the data tells us about why are making difficult and dangerous decisions to migrate is process of the when you asked about which is economic which ir ntdriver in migration. lee think about it. i will start with the broadest and get more narrow. big picture i would sayusiness enabling environment really matters. the specifics of the firm level considerations here like rule of law.

infrastructure, certainly addressing corruption. all of these things matter when lding and enabling for economic growth. you see the intersections pillae strategy. the sond thing i would say is we need to be intentional about inclusive economic gro it's probably no secret to folks in this room we are dealing with high levels of income with access to capitol and oppo being very highly concentrated and in many cases. and so what we think about economic opportunity it is not just abo gwi gdp tote that trickles down but being about dg

capitol and opportunity■@■m to e indigenous communities women, youth, who have not had traditionally to those kinds of opportunities. a few examples of how we do this example we activity. two entrepreneurs with a particular focus in the indigenous people use, a high concentration increasingly working with new business groups very recently you mayave context of migration in usa facilitated dfcne■' works with a co-op tonce

margin. first,es not had it traditionally. the third point, i will be quick on this. it goes without saying for anything to beone at scale and needs to be a market driven. bringing that conviction in approach to everything we do in the economic space. the vice psi course on social aa forward in mobilizing private investnts exhibit a for this. and then in terms of the takingh that's our surgeon the basic it includes vocational training just in the last year reach 15000 students in such programs and central.

that means creating jobs at the fi level since the launch of firms in america to create or sustain 70000 jobsrking in some cases dy with those creating businesses. whether that's access to financial credit such as a partnership in el salvador working directlyng partners to help them sell their products at a stable price. we'll get into,t this with the broad migra specific data were getting out ofact whao providing opportunities to allow people in the region to see futures for themselves at home and not have to consider the very difficult painful decision to undertake irregular migration. mali, great way to

introduce the work the department of labor hase.■ been crucial to the admistmoting best practices on the labor up front in central america. share a little about perspecti? >> absolut that's a perfect segue, thanks d the root cause strategy has evolved from a three pillar security on a broader approach includes focus on labor rights of the the context of human rig. in addressing gender-based violence. michael said something similar gdp growth alone won't get us thhat the broader strategy recognizes. growth that support families access and benefit for.

for us the department of labor job quality decent work. save jobs including protection and stable communi intn democratic societies. we take a focus on labor rights freedom of assocon to help attain all of those other things. but actively promotes collect tg industry. using.h those tools we are

we have some very targeted interventions that reach workers enable us to make real change on the gun folks are probably familiar with trade agreements the hard tools we have there terms complaints. also give us the space for spacr cooperation but we're working rightac now from the guatemalan government to explore through a cooperative mechanism to labor law enforcement. with colleagues in the private sector c society. probably a year to the date we will s of her colleagues in leadership fromgu interagency looking atng harassmentomen's economic empowerment.

a ticket economicket economic on northern central america. with worker organization understand our basicuman representation good jobs, acces. those historicallynalized work on a safe job. the progrs we find in central america. we see this moving forward in time you see a program coming out of the department of labor. we are contending to do research and reportingld labor work with the private sector helped to limit risk within the supply chain but as we& assistan

and central america.■h prep forhange. urgent health risk occupational heat stress risk garment sector workers into supply-chain workers. on the righto oanize how they develop better engage employers and government for safe quality jobs. w last two things are labor engagt department of labor what we are huge domestic agency tent labor attaches around the world but one of them is based in guatemala things we can do

together to improve the enabling environment for labor rights. it's really the other side r of the coin thriving enable environment depends on healthy that is what we are able to do for the last thing i will engagement. we have the partnership, multilateral ptnerip or organizing worker empowerment and rights. like-minded governments and civil society groups including trade unions to see w we can together to improve outcomes for workers. re able so that partnership to work with governments likeikr organizations like the international trade unionn or cy organizations like the worker rights look at particular opportunities we can all coordinateer together like gender-based those are few examples thanks.

>> that is fantastic for thank you very much and exactlyu thoe programs often they don't get the attention o it might security and migration are theat programs often on the focus of the news helping with local sectors, with government to build the infrastructure is goingo competitive and frankly a better place to live for the greater part of the population really has been a lot of the fundamental underpinning of the approach of the by demonstration over i'm going to turn to you. one thing i also learned over the last 10 years in my career working ctr humility. that was not justau limits of a policy for any u.s. administration but the way the direction o events are driven by local dynamics invite local individuals and organizations.

so, just reflecting a little better wvear and thinkingn about what's going on in central america you're asking a lot icompressed. would you share a little bit about how sector and government interacting in central america now? any thoughts you might have on the direction of u. policy? >> thank you.m grateful for then oft and different approaches. part we are neighbors and we are good neighbors. to thrive together. the root cause approach w

we have to work there. homeland. when you translate into another language root causes might equate to development human development. we education.■h in many ways. on the basis of developg one of those is democracy and the i believe is the right approach. i do believe central can be a tough feature for everyone. the approach was on the one hand

on a paper ontr the strategy. i think is right on the implementation in the way it has moved over t past years. of humility i will mention.■ it's a beautiful design on the blueprint an theo build it back there.se of the people central america. one of the hardest workers in the world. their shared interest in certain groups that do not believe central america is big enoug american top. so in that sense i do believe the■ on 2023 was gone by approach

lots of sectors inside the society with the indigenous groups. one civil society and more efficient and more effective way of moving fward in these countries. it is the u.s. approach in central america. need to be present and to inform an educate. civil soctys a way alarm. they are and present that foqn to organize and

advocate. especially some in the panel. human rights and women's rights. now with the example of nicaragua w is going on now and 2024. democracy we all need to be payingen erosion and the threat democracy itself is suffering in central . ne say it's paid participation■ representation of certain populations of a

political party systems. in society. in the international community. we should be taking a solidonal. an international. prospective fundamental civil for the u.s. policy in the root cause a strategy. as a rule of law and democracy. last but not least smart fds things have already been said and the bad thing worth has said already. between economic growth and human development.

we have thriving economies. will have robust economies. two weeks ago when i was there. a couple of smalldo roads that e need to work on from the ground up. in cenal for those to economic growth and human development. taking on side-by-side, hand by hand reaching everyone else. everybody on the ground.■ here the themes get repeated. one looks back of the past as well.■m

i'm going to ask j you. this is one of the most important led efforts reframe and laid the policy in central america. can you talk about in the lessons learned and different iterations of the strategy willl we have seen improvements and why? >> thanks and i'll mention a few. i will tick to them quickly. first subquestion of the scale and it is fair to say in the years s

region. on the impact of thosefs for the negative impact that had. we are now seeing the strategy we operate in a sustained way. go back more than a decade to track sustained government commitments both at the state department and usaid. twenty-eight dated driven evidence driven approach and hat is turned around i years a . we have a strategy and stick tog ite invested in it we have an it's a place ipl would start.

the first thing i would say we are is comprehensive as it■j is broader approach things like the migration management strategy. that usaid has done to invest tripling the visa for example recognizing their singing pa. see more impact over the there are people who feel like immigration■> -- mike -- ms our only economic concern. by and large given the choice

between doing that in the legal orderly fashion doing so highly uncertain highly different way of individuals will take the former so expanding legal pathways, do what we are doing under the programmer do whate know is an important piece of what we are constantly adapting what the data tells us about why people are■ migrating. the prior one beingcial one to mention brett also say climate change. with climate change in central america and adapting the programming to incorporate standalone programs our work on

climate. t a real flagship investment in local partners.■4 the initiative that eric and i worked on when he was at usaid. set ambitio goals for pivoting our programming in central america and globalead t partners. we sorted this effort we are something at 3% funding going to 21%.l partners who'd were were simply at our objective 25%. it's not easy and were trying to make it easier. this requires a lot of really grass roots work to and

equip local partners to work withrs us. ultimately mor do. but it's been work. we've inform the weight usaid's upper and globally. >> thank y michael. go to questions from theaudienc. with the mention here but perhaps you could elaborate a little more. what measures have been implemented under the u.s. america strategy to strengthen the rule of law combat corruption and enhance security in the region and i'll tur on that. andaw enforcement. i know that's not what people

think of when turns you on that. and specifically with laborawt e think of when they think of rule of law i think a >> much grander or fighting corruption. the reality i majority remains a challenge of resources is a question of capacity. it nee political will.the deep-t between some of the parties. ens focus on the labor law enforcement. work with governments to improve legal frameworks around labor i. laws. training labor inspectors make sure there of ofan inspectors. electronic case management systems more strategic,

efficient and effective. that sounds extremely boring to most of you and a little wonky i will explain why it is important. there is a■8olutely major obsolete majorcorruption problee headlines as an inspector taking a small a drop bribe t violatio. chronic kidney diseaseeing unable to support the families that you as a 14-year-old have out.tions enforcement was a big difference to famy economic livelihoods. to wet experience inerms of insn tackling corruption at a grass roots level. there are also major problems and i do not wt to shy away from that. and northern and central america in particular in honduras and guatemala there's a long history of violence whose flutes liquids

activists and organizen the pase somebody's bright spots the under and traded a pool hall. not necessarily but it's hard t. we saw just a couple of weeks ago a slate of unit leaders and guatemala fired after attending a labor rightsts trading. these assordhings where there directly invested or complicated of a huge chilling effect thathe people in your fecommunities are fighting to me that workplace a better who are invested in improving things a fs it's a very seriouse impediment to other people who want to invest and take the risk to make workplaces in their community saf a that said, one s i'm proudest of of investigation is how quickly and seriously we are responding to

those incidents. i've seen almost three years of department of labor cyclically andhe department of state. as they are raised by civil society organizatio we work with our local counterparts in the government to make sure the inspections are serious but we work with employersk well as multinational brands to make sure workers and families affected can seek remedies. this is not tolerated and a labor rights actors are parts of society. ieand we absently have their backs. who flutes to go to improve those relationships. aftean decades of the strong

and clearet message. and about civil society rule of law. inspections. >> excellent, eric? >> i would say on governance from the start it's been a party for this administration. to deal witor governance. short instances. and well for the administration's use a variety of tools. under your leadership to apply law than in governments and democracy issues in northern and centralxh■@ ame. we use it robustly. se iii 53 the report has allowed us toame and

shame individuals tied in the past with certain visa revocations. we use these tools of-u accountability over 1400 individuals involved in as corruption for undermining democracy in central america. addition to that the treasury department the various authorities has section 16au individuals and entities in salvadoran guatemala for the role and among other things there is human rights abuses and corruption. the key operation in theop administration partner of the former president was a critical step during the country's difficult transition. these m believe they're having an impact. in honduras we as visa restrictions throughout further backsliding aftercr for

violence after this election for thy general in the fall. we extend beyond the sanctions. in terms of trainin studentshe 2021 we have trainedr personnel, government officials andve ngos to work in these spaces. that includes an eat■■. governae work more effectively to key challenges. >> a private sector.chael talkee incredible work from vice president harris related to central related to generate new investments of the labor space as#v well. the private sector is a powerfu ally under the strategy. it's proud of the work a we have

done the partnership central america has done inau of law pl. doing a really interesting oecd. going up to thendd diligence fo. we feel that's really= important as we collaborate moving forward. wns of the audience. i think we will take three. depending upon what they are it will ask folks are happy sick volunteers the panel as w my question is relating humanri. we know security not only the economic reasons forces people to

given the situation how come it works together with the international community and make it sustainable. should be compromise in el salvador. they'll have their small businesses. how to work together but really with the people.u[ an development. we know it takes time. that is my question, thank you. >> hi.■3■ thank you very much of the panel. it was very interesting. i have just two questions. the first one is on

of informal job than formal.he bigger percentage of people that don't have any rights because more jobs.■n■mcannot findq the second question is this root cause■< every time latin america's fall behind in education and you know, what can you comment about to level the playing field? thanks. i would probably have a longer trajectory than most people here on central america. 1979.

and during the period since thef pointsnt of what you might call success. america■@&, and what is going on the region. round 1990, further. by and large that began in 1990/ and a movement towards democracy further on that. but just let me get to the more of a why we don't hear more of it. what went wrong in centralerica? why, after 30er years the

throughout the region virtually are we still o lamenting state of democracy? the statef violence, the state ruption. at has the u.s. done right? but also, what has it done wrong? we heard a lot abo whats right t this what are we not doing enough of? what should we be doing more kirk that's it easy when they're at the end three thank you very much the 5:30 years of history so why don't w take these in order. in terms of the human rights and

security may be a good turn you. >> it is a good question.ze the profound challenge of gang violence. trauma that's a brought throughout the my view, our view is citizen securityf isve duty. el salvador also is an obligationbl to respect the humn rights of all people. including a fair trial obligations. luke continued to urge the government to expeditiouslyc and fairly review the cases of those incarcerated. release any prisoners who were unjustly detained. we ctain it's a trauma from gang violence. recognition securit a salvador. but there's a need for due procs critical

for social security processes well progressive joseph went to answer that? >> it is so good, thank you. on the same thinking, it is a popular model. i knowt 'seffective. it is a small cnt million peopla bdfew parts rated 80000 people n eight span. crime is going to down for sure. the same time after 2.5 you have zero convictions. zero trials regarding this 800 people. that is a sustainable. or, are you going to create a state of emergency?what consequo

scene? according to international obligationsie and international law you have it years before. and then internally, wha going to happen after the new state of peace or search in a way of pea normality. and the family is between 18 and 22 these will become very afraid going to be incarceratedcause h. when people start gaining■e -- wind that fear against■) going n the sustainability of the model.

the human rights, democracy, security and set need to be on the same and are not going in anyay. what is it w done, what has been done is done. but now you can backtrack you can lead the international community and things to be done but you can let the internationalco community give n of american states take a look to what isregain the judiciary n control what's happening with those and their rights in order to get a fair trial. you might not end up with 80000 incarcerated. youigig up with 40000 which is a lot. but to regain the control of due process that should be demanded by the international community

and of course the national community i know it is a challenge. we are accustomed when you have governments that itated poorly inside their countries the challenge isnd how to do it f these rights that are for everybody when everyone is saying 90% the pulagree with tht >> is a real tough one. a great question, too. molly you in the informal i'm sorry for workers working on the informal be done? >> absolutely pray really appreciate thatea even within the informal sector ganize labor movements are representing a tiny fraction of workers. nd indeed with the formal sector enterprises their subcontractors so even people maywh be harng o■? p large recot not have the protection and emp. this is an area where our

especially. we work very closely with local country. and in central americaorthern and central america included. some of the very strong worker organizations we work with include for example domestic worker organ delivery workers in all sorts of every possible s increasing what we are seeing and promoting as organized labor movement that have a seat and have a dialogue or other mechanism build those partnerships and deepen those relationships. we have a lot to learn aboutps them and what we are seeing as those focused on these includine gender-based and occupational he■eal. themes applied to mobiln

regardless of how formali the workplace is for there is a lot of leadership from domestic worker organizations as you would expect him gender-based violence and harassment. and in many cases t brain more formal organizations along with them and thus national campaigns not just at labor law but also protection about gender-based ratification of the convention on eliminatingf violence and harassment in the world of work. ma c directly from the formal labor movement. and i mentioned again a multilateral cooperation other like-minded governments. we work very closely with spain has been aeaderre looking at protection on delivery workers e job safely withprotections. back to the point on humility there's a lot of learning we are doing but it's core to our focus but would mention briefly on

education i won't say we have a i figured out but i don't know else here does for its part of the conversation with education a bigar work more than half of our technical assistance and almost all of our research looks at child labor. through that work we partnered not just with labor ministries both education ministries. my goal at usaid have a lot more on that space but it works as well. >> and michael if you do not mindt to give ample time for the last question here. want to point one element on education whichnto tl question. better. incredible success i■kteduedo states. you know it's on a human capitol issue but you know it is not yoy contributions to the u.s.

economy. we know it's there on that front education is clearly one key element. not the only o come to the last question, what could be w be doing better? i'll give then last word on this one will go right down the line from■ó■& give you the last wordn this one. it's a crucial piece of the self-examination. eric, i'm going to start with you.■! cooks always leave it to peter to question, appreciate that for a couple of things in what went wn central america? there is a q be better? but also where we faltered over the years? and should be a big piece of this and out of two things coming as lessons learned from guatemala experience. what is the lack of investment in the.

their suppo port into the judicy over many years. the fact you have to deal with the law fair in such huge you have a president ingu guatemala who wants to move forward a big aicption agenda. you have difficult challenges oy general from the judiciary itself. it shows there's not been&nonh . personally i'm excited about this ession. not saying it's a panacea but it is eight recognition wek at ele. we have to look at what is happening in the judicial brah for the otherpe piece i would sy again is an example coming out ofua and unfulfilled promise from the peace process is indigenous"[ inclusion. indigenous large part that had a role in ensuring it made it the overly lengthy transition. and now there needs to be ae co.

we found the high-level■m■g crie administration. the u.s. government and putting board indigenous voi to the indigenous communities are really critical moving forward. ■y which is may be a word on that it's a fairly obvious one. their relative success stories in central america, panama and rica. had very different cold war histories. the role of military and different ways. >> particularly in costa rica's caseout over time, just interesg to keep inou mind also, you the long tale that some of those histories and decisions have had

in countries a in terms of lessons learned, ricardo, i think, know, in addition to good kind of stay ae is something that we have been reminded of again and again and eric had spokenpz in detail abot guatemala and that's a good example of doing that and the way in usa'su4 ce, really across the government we have been able to do this, in the usa's case what that has looked like is being able to surge and adapt response in transition p■period priorities and recognizing that their ability to deliver on the promise of democracy of communities that really put to -- to vote ine■s sustain a democratic transition is critical and is will connect

that briefly to the question on education which is to say, you know, usa recognizing the critical importance of education has, you significant investments and foundational leniasic education, the education program here at the dialogue is done really great work on -- on this issue and a lot of it does back to education quality across across latin america. we've also done i think some in under the root strategy in this case, one is to really kind of key in on the middle school ho tschool dropouts in central at things like conditional cash transfers, for example, as a potential solution to that challenge, at as i mentioned vocational training is an option for those who havepedg up on those people but finding way to acqg skills both

informal or event sector in digital scaling that can provide them a pathway ttai. we just launch id a couple of weeks ago ina guatemala, americps model, allows young people to stay rooted in their co find opportunities build soft skills and contribute to the areas where they grew up and where they are hopefully going to be rooted longer term and the final thing i will say is just, you know, i think this is an area to ricardo and arturo's point of central american agency, it's an area where we really need tond n

area that is so fundamental so clearly in the interest of the countries themselves to not be exportinut exploiting for the we know statistics, guatemala 11%, higher than honduras and el salvador. themselves investing. we need to see private-sector, eric mentioned alliance in honduras, the honduran private sector, donors around education, just seeing how this can be in terms of tin vestments particular sector. briefly, parp expanding theiv obama initiativ,

that is the initiative that wasm reed on supporting local civil society actors as the folks who are best equippede in their own countries■ es. that continues to be true. especially in washington to graduateou on you have democratic election democr. he to be invested the department of labor the ptnworkers organizr ministries as well. consistently as thosered partnerships extend into the private sectoor tirps with gove, partnerships with a host of org. that is what stability is that what's wronr what went wrong as much as what could we do right and what can we do more of?

>> what went wrong? inequality but that is what is wrong with m region. what can we do best? bringing inequality the concept of of the partners here have already said the agency of central america is to go there and listen to everybody. that information the tactics because of strategy is really effective was and has been affected4 and guat. social inequality political inequality, forgetur economies and central america are basically subsidized[j economy d

central america sent from the u.s. men well is aro h me. it is way up there way up if we counterfactual hypotheses from wednesday to the other america does not receive a single dollar would be broke. more than 75% of our will go straight direct from one day to tp that in mind. with that in mind the indigenoue biggest base of central america not i don't talkrcentages to fae

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