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While on travel to El Salvador, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power launched the Regional Challenge to Advance Gender Equality in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, a new USAID effort to advance gender equality and increase women's access, agency, and power.

Fundamentally, though, the United States believes that governments everywhere must earn the trust and goodwill of their people. If corruption is allowed to run rampant, if judicial independence is not respected, if anti-corruption institutions are dismantled, as we have seen too often in Honduras, Guatemala, and here in El Salvador, then local governments will end up stymieing the aspirations and the potential of their own people.

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power will travel to Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala from June 13-17 to advance USAID's efforts to help address the governance, economic, and security challenges that are driving Central Americans to migrate north.

Today, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power met with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi to discuss how USAID and UNHCR can better work together to ensure that refugees can participate fully in the economy and society of host countries.

Yesterday, U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power met with UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed to discuss the international response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the urgent response needed to address the grave humanitarian crisis in Tigray, Ethiopia, and the major challenges facing El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras that have led to irregular migration.

I welcome the Department of Homeland Security's decision to allocate an additional 6,000 H-2B temporary guest worker visas for nationals from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador for 2021.

On Monday, May 10, 2021, Administrator Samantha Power held several sessions aimed at strengthening faith-based engagement and addressing violations of religious freedom and human rights abuses.

On May 5, 2021, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power represented the United States virtually at the G7 Foreign and Development Ministerial.

Today, Samantha Power was sworn into office as the 19th Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development by Vice President Kamala Harris.

On Day 2, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power held several sessions aimed at addressing the root causes of irregular migration in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.