President Obama has proposed "an aid" package to Central America in the 2015 budget, or about $1 billion. In general, I agree with anything that promotes Central America, a poor region devastated by cartel violence and local governments that can't stand up to lawlessness.  The net result is the kind of desperation that drives people across Mexico and to the U.S. The Boston Globe describes the aid in today's editorial: "The initiative, dubbed the Alliance for Prosperity and included in President Obama’s proposed budget, represents almost three times more funding than what the region typically gets in aid from the United States.  It’s an investment worth making.  “Compared to what we give globally, to less strategically important places given the fact that migration issues come from these countries, it’s a fantastic step forward,” notes Jason Marczak, a Latin America expert at...(Read Full Post)