From Central America to Venezuela: displaced people, forced migration and the geopolitical agenda of the United States

Daniel Villafuerte Solís and María del Carmen García Aguilar

Chapter 12 in Handbook on Migration and Development, 2024, pp 188-203 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This article seeks to analyse the causes of human mobility in the northern region of Central America, known as the Northern Triangle, and Venezuela. A distinction is made between the significance of migration in both cases, and a United States geopolitics that tolerates Central America while condemning Venezuela. It highlights the political use of migration to sanction this country, exhibiting the refugee as an expression of the tyranny of the Venezuelan government, while for the Northern Triangle it silences the existence of an extractive maquiladora economic model and concentration of wealth as a factor in the expulsion of population.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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