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Today, Explained

Throwing money at the migrant crisis

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Vice President Kamala Harris just attended Honduras’s presidential inauguration. Her trip was really about the US-Mexico border. February 4, 2022 correction: An earlier version of this episode incorrectly stated that President Alejandro Giammattei of Guatemala was accused by U.S. prosecutors of taking drug money. It was actually the former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández. We have removed the reference from the episode. Guatemalan prosecutors are investigating the claim that President Giammattei took a bribe from Russia. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Franco Ardoniaz, you covered the White House for MPR. You're also on the politics podcast quite a

1:19.0

bit and you recently were on a plane to Honduras with Vice President Kamala Harris. How come?

1:27.9

Well, Vice President Harris was going to Honduras to attend the inauguration of Siamara Castro.

1:34.6

She's the new president of Honduras.

1:43.6

Ser fiela repĂşblica.

1:57.6

And she's also a potential partner, a big partner for the United States in its effort to fight

2:04.6

the ruse causes of migration. And it's a really big deal actually that Kamala Harris went

2:11.6

because Vice Presidents don't often go to Latin America for inaugurations and particularly countries

2:19.7

as small as Honduras. So it really shows how important this is for this White House to have

2:28.1

this partnership because frankly they really don't have someone that Harris can call in the region

2:34.8

to talk with and really work out how to make things better. Our perspective as the United States in

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