Central Americans hope that President Obama's March visit to El Salvador will bring "tangible benefits" to the region in helping to resolve problems of international migration and organized crime.
Guatemalan analysts are disappointed with the Obama administration's failure to grant TPS to Guatemalans in the US and that he has so far failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform that would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Julio César Grijalva, an ARENA representative to PARLACEN, said that "the region is hoping for concrete responses in the areas of security and migration from the meeting between Funes and Obama."
The agenda for the Funes / Obama meeting is scheduled to center on the fight against poverty, security, migration, trade, and climate change and clean energy. I continue to think that the trip is primarily about US - El Salvador relations and that the rest of the region should not look for much in terms of progress on key regional issues. If that were to be a focus of the meetings, other heads of state would have been invited.
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