Embattled Honduran president says US may still provide aid

Embattled Honduran president says US may still provide aid
By Ramon Sahmkow (AFP) 22 mins ago in World .

Hondurans waving torches may have taken to the streets demanding his resignation over corruption, but their president said Wednesday the US Congress may pass a huge Central American aid package anyway.

"I do not see any big complication," President Juan Orlando Hernandez said here in an interview with news agency reporters.

The billion-dollar development package called the Alliance for Prosperity is designed to try to curb poverty and violence that send tens of thousands of Central Americans fleeing north each year through Mexico in search of work and a better life in the United States.

US senators and representatives have traveled to Honduras and have a "clear vision" of how the government is dealing with the corruption allegations, Hernandez said.

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