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By: EFE
Wednesday, October 23
The United States evaluates the creation of a vaccine manufacturing center for Latin America
The United States evaluates helping to create a vaccine manufacturing center for Latin America that allows to manufacture more doses on the continent, and wants to support a project that seeks to do the same in West Africa , indicated an official source.
These projects could be part of the p infrastructure plan with which the United States wants to counteract China’s advance , which Washington plans to present probably next January and will be called “Build back better for the world” .
In a telephone press conference with a small group of media, a senior US official gave clues about the projects that the White House is considering financing in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and the Indo-Pacific within the framework of the initiative, which has the support of the G7.
“There are a number of projects in the field of solar, hydraulic and geothermal energy (that we could develop), and we have had many conversations both in Ecuador as in Colombia on the possibility of creating a vaccine manufacturing center for Latin America ”, explained the official.
The source, who requested anonymity , did not give details about how that possible manufacturing center would work, but explained that that topic was discussed during a Latin American tour that he did at the end of September Daleep Singh , the Deputy National Security Advisor by President Joe Biden .
Singh visited Colombia , Ecuador and Panama to hear the ideas of the leaders of those countries and begin to shape the White House plan; and last week, he also traveled to Senegal and Ghana to do the same in that African region.
“ In each of the five countries we have visited so far, we have come out with at least ten projects ”that can be developed within the framework of the new initiative, said the aforementioned official.
Between five and 10 projects
That “does not mean that they are going to be launched 50 projects in those five countries in January ”, but probably the list will be reduced and the United States will launch its new initiative with “ between five and ten projects that will serve as a test ”of what the initiative may entail, added the source.
The Biden Government has Another tour related to the initiative planned for the end of the year in Asia, and also who We are planning a trip to Central America, although there is still no date for that, said the official.
The initial projects of the initiative will be formally decided during a meeting of the G7 in December, in which the UK will hand over the group’s presidency to Germany, the source added.
It is expected that the future US plan to mobilize private sector capital to boost projects in four areas: climate, health security, digital technology and gender equality.
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