• They agreed to improve intelligence sharing on transnational human trafficking networks.

Mexico City, April 7, 2021.- "We are willing to join forces in the fight against human trafficking and to protect human rights, especially of children," said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on his social networks after a telephone conversation with United States Vice President Kamala Harris, during which he was accompanied by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon.

During the conversation, the Mexican President and the US Vice President discussed issues related to regional migration, such as measures to promote safe, orderly and regular migration.

They talked about cooperation projects for southern Mexico and the countries of northern Central America, and addressed the projects related to the dialogue between the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (Amexcid) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

In addition to cooperation programs to promote egalitarian economic development in the region, both leaders agreed on the urgency of carrying out emergency humanitarian aid programs in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Similarly, they reaffirmed the commitment to protect migrants' human rights, with emphasis on appropriate protection for unaccompanied minors.

They further agreed to strengthen binational mechanisms for intelligence sharing to combat transnational human trafficking networks that put the safety of migrants at risk.

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