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signed between Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala and by the relatively weak custom controls. Due to the economic development and the growing sensation of wellbeing at the countries located north of Nicaragua, recruiters are able to offer working opportunities easy to believe. Lorry drivers that travel along the Pan- American motorway, increase the demand of human trafficking and help by providing transport; two “contributions” also made by ports situated along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Prostitution near borders and in big cities also increases the demand from mail clients, workers migrating towards north and the population of working emigrants” 7 . II.2. A regional instrument As a result of the Presidents’ meeting on February 1996, the Regional Conference on Migration was created. Many countries participated in that multinational forum on migratory matters analyzing smuggling and human trafficking items. Canadian and United States authorities assisted from the very beginning of the Regional Conference, in its first edition at Puebla, the location in Mexico where the meeting took place, that’s why it was named the Puebla Process. The presence of these officers highlighted the fact that the countries they represented are considered poles of attraction for southern regions, generating migratory flaws that had great social, cultural, economic and political impact in their own situation. Belize, Canadá, Costa Rica, El Salvador, the United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic (and some observing countries) are nowadays members of the Regional Conference. They count with the support of many international organizations such as the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC). The spirit of the Regional Conference is to “protect and respect the migrant’s human rights, no matter their migratory situation, to support proper and secure migrations, to generate dialogue and cooperation between countries with the 12
active participation of the social community”. Its recommendations aren’t obligatory for the country members, but they have become fundamental guidelines for the formulation of public policies that the different countries are undertaking. The Regional Conference has annual meetings with the participation of all the Vice Foreign Secretaries and a country occupies pre tempore the place of the President of the Conference. To attend technical and practical matters, a Counselling Regional Group on Migration was created. Due to its open spirit and wide support of group of technicians from different migration institutions, the Puebla Process, has granted the international community an ideal space to generate guidelines and practical recommendations for governments. It has also increased the awareness on human trafficking and the facts that hide behind this crime and improved the coordination of efforts to counter it. III. <strong>BELIZE</strong> Belize is, without doubts, a singular country in the Center American context. In spite of being so near Guatemala, Honduras and other Central American countries, its mountains and poor road connections have isolated it, allowing Belize’s economy, culture and political processes to make a difference. Other ingredients also play a role in this story. The country remained a British Crown Colony up to the 21 September 1981 and it still has strong bonds with its former colonizer having inherited the British institutional structure that reflects on the day to day life, for example the language. Social trends also make Belize different. 235.000 people live on a 235.000 square metres area 8 . It is the less populated country of the region, it has available land and there have been no violent episodes during the last decades and no dictatorships. This rather peaceful picture takes place in a country where 13
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