Patricia Guadalupe Columnist

The White House announces that the president Obama will travel to Mexico the next month to meet his Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderón. This, simultaneously that in order this month the State Department, Hillary Clinton, does a trip to the Mexico City and to the frontier city of Monterrey, to demonstrate that the American government does not believe that Mexico is a dangerous country in spite of the increasing wave of violence related to fights between groups of drug traffickers. Skylight that to walk in an armored car and with bodyguard is quite sure, but what the White House wants to do with the trips of Clinton and Obama is, between other things, to answer the worries on which the tourist dollars will not return in big quantities to Mexico. On the other hand, unofficially it was said this week that the administration Obama would send reinforcements to resist the violence that is seen by major frequency on the border.

Simultaneously, in a meeting this week with the group of Hispanic conferees, Obama said that the trip would focus in repeating the “narrow and deep” relation that two countries have, and that would affirm his support to a migratory reform. But it would not have to go very far to speak with the people who matters in this matter, because it has him to do it to the federal Congress, here in Washington. Mexico might say – and he has said–: good what that the White House supports a migratory reform!, but it is a question of that the Congress does something. The Latin conferees insist that the topic will touch, but up to the date the leadership has not made anything concrete to throw pa'lante the thing.

Meanwhile, the president Obama has sent congratulations to the new president of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, who is the first candidate in coming to the presidency representing the party Front Farabundo Martí for the National Liberation (FMLN), the ex-guerrillas. Funes supports that he will think about how to support a moderate politics and that he hopes to have a narrow relation with the United States.

The White House indicates that this way it will be. The relation of El Salvador and the United States is very important, particularly for the Central American country, a poor nation that depends much of the funds that his connacionales send from the foreigner. More of the fourth one part of the population lives in the exterior – more than 200,000 in our metropolitan area - and the Salvadoran economy depends and works with the American dollar. El Salvador also has a serious and increasing problem of bands and the delinquency that results from the same one, and the government speaks of trying to look for more funds of the bundle of American assistance to fight the bands. Ironically, many of the bands deportees of the United States came.