Fearing deportation, Hondurans in the US send more cash home than ever before

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1. It's a tough call for those governments to avoid a serious conflict of interest.

Those remittances for Honduras composed 20% or so of the country's GDP, and primarily went straight to the poorest segments of society.

In other words, they provided a social safety net for the elite rulers because, well, they tamped down social unrest while providing a lot of economic support. Why would any Honduran government take serious measures to retain its less educated, poorer members of society? Any attempt to address "root causes" encounters those headwinds--governments may say to give them money but much of that's siphoned off and much of it misses that the local PTB are fine with the status quo.

This increase just increases that conflict of interest.