Vice President Jose Gabriel Carrizo Jaen (since 2019)[8]
Monthly events
January and February
January 8 –
Guatemalan military spokesman Ruben Tellez says that up to 4,000 soldiers will be deployed to reinforce its borders and stop migrants. General Tito Livio Moreno, Honduras' senior military officer, said earlier this week that
soldiers would be deployed there to preemptively stop any migrant caravans.[9]
January 11 – Authorities from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador meet in Corinto, Honduras to discuss coordination on migration.[11]
January 13 – Two hundred Honduran migrants march towards
San Pedro Sula en route to Guatemala. Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei says he may declare a “state of prevention” along the border. Guatemala already requires a negative COVID-19 test and other travel documents.[11]
January 15 – Violence breaks out in El Florido,
Copán Ruinas, along the Honduran-Guatemalan border as migrants try to enter Guatemala. 300 people who entered Guatemala illegally were intercepted 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of the border.[12]
January 23 – United States President
Joe Biden pledges $4 billion for development in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.[14]
February 4 – U.S. Border Patrol officials in Texas release hundreds of Central American families in
Laredo and
Brownsville after authorities in
Tamaulipas, Mexico refuse to take them in because of overcrowding in camps.[15]
February 6 – U.S. Secretary of State
Antony Blinken says the agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras to send asylum-seekers back to those countries are suspended.[16]
February 19 – The
Group of Seven (G-7) promises an equitable distribution of
COVID-19 vaccines, although few details have been provided.[17]
February 23 – The
World Food Programme urgently calls for US$47.3 million to help 2.6 million people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua hit by
famines caused by the economic crises related to COVID-19 and natural disasters.[18]
February 26 – Honduras and Guatemala each receive 5,000 doses of
Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, donated by
Israel. The vaccines will be destined for health workers. Honduras has had 167,000 infections and 4,000 deaths, while Guatemala has reported 173,000 cases and 6,334 deaths.[19]
March to June
March 2 – A boat with partially decomposed bodies of six migrants, one with a passport from
Guinea, is found
Cayo Las Palomas, Nicaragua.[20]
June 11 – Eleven countries, private organizations, and international banks pledge US$110 billion to help Central American countries deal with the root causes of emigration. This is in addition to the US$300 billion already pledged by the U.S. government.[22]