Expansion to Central America

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of Mexico, assured that he will propose to his North American counterpart, Joe Biden, the expansion of the Sembrando Vida program to Central America.

According to the El Financiero media outlet, the president said "what I want to propose to Biden is that the Sembrando Vida program be expanded to Central America."

Growth for the region

The president of Mexico affirmed "that said action will generate jobs that will mainly benefit citizens of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, and that the initiative will be proposed to the US president on Thursday."

“This will allow us to order the migratory flow. In March this situation overflowed ”, he commented.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador also pointed out that this proposal will also include cutting the number of barrels of oil per day that are extracted in the country.

New investments

"Instead of extracting three million 400 thousand barrels a day, we are going to put a ceiling so as not to exceed two million barrels a day," he clarified.

“We are going to invest in hydroelectric plants that have been built for several years in Mexico but have become obsolete. (…) We are going to intervene 14 large hydroelectric plants with new turbines and new equipment ”, he added.

Program objectives

According to information published by the Mexican government, the program seeks to turn ejidos and communities into a strategic sector for the development of the Mexican countryside, working to increase the productivity of rural areas, under a focus on sustainability and regional development in the short, medium and long-term, which contributes to reducing the vulnerability in which the peasants of these regions live.

Therefore, Sembrando Vida seeks to address two problems: rural poverty and environmental degradation. In this way, its objectives are to rescue the countryside, reactivate the local economy and regenerate the social fabric in the communities.