I have pondered this problem for years

RAXRUHA, Guatemala (Reuters) - In the poor, hot region of Guatemala that was home to a seven-year-old migrant girl before she died in U.S. border custody last month, palm oil cultivation is taking over from subsistence farming, adding to pressure on people to leave.Many villagers around the municipality of Raxruha have sold land to palm oil producers, residents and local officials say, helping to make Guatemala one of the world’s biggest exporters of the versatile product in the space of just a few years.Supporters of the industry say it has created jobs and investment in an area where poverty and violence have long been the main drivers of migration.

First it was severe hurricane knocked them out, not this; and this seems to have two sides.  Why palm oil? Energy rich, one of the better biofuel plants.   The other side is why can't they get a good market price for their farms?  I can see the industry supporters point, if the industry was long term and if they paid fair market value for land, but I suspect property markets are quite skewed down there.

No this is foreign policy adventure for us, it is our North America, a single continent and natural trading partners. If we had common sense and found the answer to the riddle, then just make them a junior coalition partner, an offer they cannot refuse. Spend the do-re-me, it is the highest pay off for immediate results of any foreign policy adventure.  The alternative is one of the professional war declarers in the Senate, generally a cattle rancher from Montana.