¿Cuál será la política exterior de Trump hacia América Latina y el Caribe?
América latina está en el sexto lugar de las prioridades: el control de la migración, el tráfico de drogas y las dictaduras, escribe Manuel Orozco para Confidencial.
Manuel Orozco
Nicaragua | Director, Migration, Remittances and Development Program, Inter-American Dialogue
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Manuel Orozco is the director of the Migration, Remittances, and Development Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. He also serves as a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Development and as a senior adviser with the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Orozco has conducted extensive research, policy analysis and advocacy on issues relating to global flows of remittances as well as migration and development worldwide. He is chair of Central America and the Caribbean at the US Foreign Service Institute and senior researcher at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.
Orozco frequently testifies before Congress and has spoken before the United Nations. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Texas at Austin, a MA in public administration and Latin American studies, and a BA in international relations from the National University of Costa Rica.
Orozco has published widely on remittances, Latin America, globalization, democracy, migration, conflict in war torn societies, and minority politics. His books include International Norms and Mobilization for Democracy (2002), Remittances: Global Opportunities for International Person-to-Person Money Transfers (2005), América Latina y el Caribe: Desarrollo, migración y remesas (2012) and Migrant Remittances and Development in the Global Economy (2013).
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The number of people who have left [the Northern Triangle] has been so large that it has actually diminished the size of the labor force in those countries.
Nicaragua realized that [removing visa requirements for certain nationalities] was a way to weaponize migration. Basically, to utilize migration as a way to attack directly the United States by sending thousands of migrants.