On the other hand, Mexico has the most valuable silver in the world with an estimated value of $3 billion. Money laundering through the drug trade in Mexico and Central America has resulted in many of the super-rich being linked to cartels.
Mexico City is the capital and most populous city of Mexico. It is both the municipal and federal seat of Mexico, and the capital of the State of Mexico.
United States immigration enforcement authorities began the process of deporting Salvadorans.
Pleasant and more tranquil than the border cities of Tijuana or San Diego, El Salvador is now home to a growing number of billionaires. (…)
A number of Salvadoran smugglers have built wealth in El Salvador, and some have become prominent businessmen in the country. Many have ties to the Los Angeles-based Cali drug cartel, which accounts for a substantial portion of the illicit trade in Latin America.
The LA Times has a good article about the use of the Salvadoran refugee crisis to pursue policy:
Y ou had President Bill Clinton's secretary of state and then-national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, drive home the point that the best way to stem the tide of refugees from El Salvador was to help the guerrillas and undermine the military-dominated government. To a great extent, that is what did happen in the 1980s. But the side effect was that one of the richest countries in Latin America, just over the mountains from the most violent country in the hemisphere, now has a large population of poor Salvadorans who would rather leave.
The Salvadoran government controls its border with Honduras. (…) The Salvadoran government has been relatively open about its efforts to reduce illegal immigration. In one such effort, it began paying $300 monthly to each of 500 migrants who gave up trying to cross the border illegally.
The institute was created in March 1996 by Bill Clinton's National Security Council, which wanted to develop new policies on Central America, mainly Nicaragua, but also El Salvador and Guatemala. (…)
US politicians may have supported the overthrow of the government of Salvador Allende in 1973, in the hope that the country would become a client state with its wealth used to pay for US goods, but they soon changed their tune. The Carter administration, in particular, became much tougher, and one of its main priorities was to oppose any government that might be sympathetic to the Sandinistas. As far as the CIA was concerned, there were three options for the Salvadorans: fight the gu ac619d1d87
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