The Latest: Analyst says aid cut for CentAm could backfire

[Judi Lynn]

Updated 6:00 am CDT, Sunday, October 28, 2018

HUIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — The latest on the caravan of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States (all times local):

3:10 p.m.

An analyst with Moody's Analytics says that if U.S. President Donald Trump follows through on cutting or reducing aid to Central America, it could backfire by worsening poverty and violence that are root causes of migration.

Alfredo Coutino writes in a report Tuesday that slashing funding for employment, health care, education and security "will have an important consequence on vulnerable people."

Coutino says any increase in insecurity and reduction in well-being would provide "additional incentive" for people to leave, "potentially aggravating the migration of Central Americans" northward.

More:
https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/The-Latest-Migrant-caravan-pauses-honoring-man-13329734.php

[rickford66]

1. It took Moody's Analytics to figure this out ??

I wonder if they if they know the Pope is Catholic ?

[elleng]

2. Of COURSE.

slashing funding for employment, health care, education and security "will have an important consequence on vulnerable people."

Coutino says any increase in insecurity and reduction in well-being would provide "additional incentive" for people to leave, "potentially aggravating the migration of Central Americans" northward.