Trump threatens to cut aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador
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President Trump on Friday threatened to cut foreign aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, accusing the Central American countries of "doing nothing for the United States but taking our money."
"Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are doing nothing for the United States but taking our money," Trump tweeted.
"Word is that a new Caravan is forming in Honduras and they are doing nothing about it. We will be cutting off all aid to these 3 countries - taking advantage of U.S. for years!"
This is not the first time that Trump has threatened stop providing foreign aid to countries he says are not doing enough to stop migrant caravans from forming. In October he said that "no more money or aid will be given to Honduras" if a migrant caravan was not stopped.
Trump has made illegal immigration a key focus of his presidency. Leading up to the 2018 miderms he focused heavily on a migrant caravan moving toward the U.S. from Guatemala, labeling it as an "invasion" that would bring crime and drugs across the Southern border.
Reducing foreign aid to the countries would require congressional approval through the appropriations process, which would be unlikely with Democrats retaking the House majority in January.
The U.S. gave $180 million to Honduras , $257 million to Guatemala and $118 million to El Salvador in aid in 2017, according to data from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Trump's threat came at the end of a string of tweets where he threatened to close the U.S.-Mexico border if he doesn't get funding for his border wall.
The president's comments come on the seventh day of a partial government shutdown with no end in sight.
The shutdown began on Saturday after Democrats rejected demands from Trump that $5 billion for the wall be included in a measure to keep the government open.
BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO - 12/28/18 09:38 AM EST 4
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Hopefully, the President will act.
Agreed.
Excellent.
Well since DOJ lawyers and Federal Judges have stated that Trump's tweets are 'speculation' and 'not pure fact', no one should believe anything Trump says in a tweet or in person for that matter...
If he does cut aid to those countries the Chinese will step in. They have already replaced the U.S. as the major trading partner in South America and are now working on Central America.
The same thing has happened in the South Pacific and much of Asia, Chinese influence is tops now.
Chinese naval dominance in the Pacific, building a standing army of "technicians" in our southern hemisphere, and a fucking moron in the white house. What could possibly go wrong?
The Chinese started their crap in the Pacific when Obama was President and he really didn't do a damn thing about it except point his stern finger at them. The Chinese started moving into South America also during the Obama administration. Again he did nothing but look the other way. And now progressive liberals are pissed because somebody's doing something about it now?
This is about financial warfare. We were broke, remember?
China was not.
Let the Chinese put a bunch of banana republic crooks on their payroll. None of the money filters down to the average person and the only products they export are gang members and drug mules. Maybe they'll have the guts to clean house down there since they don't have soft liberals holding them back.
Money filtering down to the people has nothing to do with what China is doing. China has replaced the US as the top trading partner in South America...They control at last count 6 major ports in South America. They have long term leases on oil/ore and many minerials...The cargo moves their ports they control onto ships that they own. The are the creditor for some of the countires (Argentina) thus giving them shadow control of wealth of these countries.
China became the gate keeper for the Panama Canal in 1999 and in the ensuing years have gained more and more control. In 2017 they puchased the largest port in Panama giving them outstanding access to Central America...
Time to wake up and see that we are losing the Americas, our own back yard. It has nothing to do with liberal's or conservatives. Both have fucked it up by not paying attention.
China has built a space monitoring station in Argentina which is unbelievable. They are there to stay and will be Central America as well. As we drawn back, they will fill the void.
It's that simple.
BTW, China is doing the same in the Caribbian, Africa, Indian sub continent and part of eastern Europe and throughout Asia.
Their Belt and Road program is well worth researching.
So Trump cutting aid will do nothing to stop China. People will still be running away from Central America no matter who's in charge. All the more reason to build the wall.
You're centainly entitled to your opinion, but the reality of it is that China will have shadow control of both South and Central America....If your content with that, than you're taking the correct path.
Actually a bit of research on your part re the U.S. and Honduras might show you that there was an agreement between the US and Honduras regarding this very subject, but we don't seem to have lived up to our part...
Have a nice day.
that does not sound like a threat
that sounds like a promise.
in other words, if that was a direct quote... consider it done.
Any foreign aid (bribes) we give them needs to require they keep their problems in their countries and not trying to cross US borders and take back all we catch inside our borders
So from the comments in this seed, it looks like the demands from the neo-nationalists that we need to 'listen to the experts' has been flushed down the toilet.