Mexico and its main construction companies could help carry out a plan to spur economic growth and jobs in Central America to stem illegal immigration to the United States, a senior Mexican government official said on Friday.
Struggling to stop a record flood of child migrants to the United States earlier this year, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have drawn up a plan to improve energy supply and infrastructure in the impoverished and violent region.
Presented to US and Mexican officials in New York in September, the proposal foresees spending billions of dollars on roads, ports, power networks and airports in the region between 2015 and 2019 to improve their economies.
How the plan could be funded is due to be discussed between the nations and US Vice President Joe Biden in Washington on Nov. 14. Guatemala has said it hopes about $10 billion could be raised for the five-year plan, chiefly from the United States.
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