Manuel Orozco is the director of the Migration, Remittances, and Development Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. He also serves as a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Development and as a senior adviser with the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Orozco has conducted extensive research, policy analysis and advocacy on issues relating to global flows of remittances as well as migration and development worldwide. He is chair of Central America and the Caribbean at the US Foreign Service Institute and senior researcher at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.
Orozco frequently testifies before Congress and has spoken before the United Nations. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Texas at Austin, a MA in public administration and Latin American studies, and a BA in international relations from the National University of Costa Rica.
Orozco has published widely on remittances, Latin America, globalization, democracy, migration, conflict in war torn societies, and minority politics. His books include International Norms and Mobilization for Democracy (2002), Remittances: Global Opportunities for International Person-to-Person Money Transfers (2005), América Latina y el Caribe: Desarrollo, migración y remesas (2012) and Migrant Remittances and Development in the Global Economy (2013).
Manuel Orozco, director del Programa de Migraciones, Remesas y Desarrollo del Diálogo Interamericano, compartió su análisis sobre la situación de Nicaragua en el 2022 en Confidencial. Según Orozco, Nicaragua será afectada por el desempleo, ingresos limitados, contracción crediticia, endeudamiento externo y aislamiento internacional. Asimismo, Orozco examinó la emigración de nicaragüenses y el incremento de envío de remesas en medio de la crisis.
Manuel Orozco, Director del Program de Migraciones, Remesas y Desarrollo, participó en una entrevista con Expediente Público donde pronosticó un incremento de la migración de los nicaragüenses tras las elecciones de este 7 de noviembre debido al nuevo fraude electoral en Nicaragua. Según Orozco, la intención a migrar creció de 19% en 2019 a 34% en 2021. Durante la entrevista también se habló sobre el crecimiento del envío de remesas hacia Nicaragua, siendo el único indicador macroeconómico positivo desde la crisis.
El 7 de noviembre concluyó un plan premeditado del Gobierno de Daniel Ortega para consumar su reelección haciendo uso de la criminalización de la democracia, por un lado, eliminando ilegítimamente a la oposición e intimidando a sus electores, y por otro lado, ejecutando un masivo fraude electoral.
Despite a severe continued deterioration of health conditions among Latin American and Caribbean countries, and a slower than expected economic recovery in 2021, migrant remittance transfers will grow 25% relative to 2020, which had already increased 9%.
This post is also available in: SpanishMigrants often purchase products from their country of origin such as food, clothing or handicrafts, a practice which is known as the “nostalgic trade.” To better understand this practice, the project surveyed 380 Guatemalans in the United States and visited more than 40 stores…
Guatemala’s economic growth and development has historically been affected by high rates of inequality, as well as by a poorly performing economic model that is based on agricultural exports.
Cuando la represión legal y coercitiva se implementó [en Nicaragua] a partir de mayo de 2021 con el encarcelamiento de líderes políticos y precandidatos a la presidencia, salieron del país más de 80,000 personas. La migración a Estados Unidos creció de menos de 5,000 personas antes del 2018, a 60,000 este año.
More than 200,000 Nicaraguans have left the country since the 2018 crackdown. Many went to the United States and neighboring Costa Rica, with a large number of families back home relying on remittances.
