{"id":48726,"date":"2022-05-26T10:19:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T17:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48726"},"modified":"2022-05-26T10:19:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T17:19:18","slug":"joint-statement-on-the-meeting-of-the-u-s-spain-working-group-on-central-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48726","title":{"rendered":"Joint Statement on the Meeting of the U.S.-Spain Working Group on Central America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>05\/26\/2022 12:57 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and Spain on the occasion of the Meeting of the U.S.-Spain Working Group on Central America.<\/p>\n<p><em>Begin Text<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first meeting of the U.S.-Spain Working Group on Central America took place yesterday, May 25, in Madrid, Spain.\u00a0 It was chaired by U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Emily Mendrala and Spain\u2019s Secretary of State for Latin America, the Caribbean and Spanish in the World, Juan Fern\u00e1ndez Trigo.\u00a0 Representatives of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of Homeland Security, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), and the Ministry of Inclusion also participated.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting confirmed that both countries share the priorities of supporting institutional strengthening, democratic governance, civil society, the fight against corruption, and the fight against gender violence in the region.\u00a0 Both countries also agreed on the importance of supporting human rights defenders, journalists, and people in vulnerable situations such as, among others, indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant communities, and the LGTBQI+ community.<\/p>\n<p>Both delegations also addressed the need to promote sustainable and inclusive development that allows for the generation of opportunities in Central American countries.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Working Group studied proposals and actions to jointly address, with the countries of the region, the challenges posed by forced displacement and irregular migratory movements in and from Central America.<\/p>\n<p>The creation of this working group is a clear demonstration of the willingness of Spain and the United States to collaborate on a host of global matters.\u00a0 This working group will continue to meet regularly to further the strong partnership between Spain and the United States on our policy in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p><em>End Text<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/26\/2022 12:57 PM EDT Office of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48727,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48726\/revisions\/48727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}