U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visits Guatemala on Monday, June 7, before flying to Mexico the following day to meet with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“The goal of the trip is to deepen our strategic partnership and bilateral relationship with both the Guatemalan and Mexican governments to advance a comprehensive strategy to tackle the causes of migration,” said Harris’ senior advisor, Symone Sanders. Other issues to be addressed include natural disasters, food insecurities, climate change, poverty, violence and corruption, Sanders said.