FILE PHOTO - Migrants from Honduras walk along a road with other Central American migrants during their journey towards the United States, in Huixtla, Mexico April 18, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government said on Saturday it would help Honduras create 20,000 jobs this year and support its coffee farmers as the two countries seek to curb migration to the United States that has created tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his Honduran counterpart, Juan Orlando Hernandez, pledged to work together to lift prosperity in Central America, where poverty and violence have fuelled an exodus of people north.
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