Blinken delivers remarks at Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity meeting

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken unveiled on Wednesday a new plan for countries in the Americas to boost production of semiconductors.

This initiative will turbocharge countries' capacity to assemble, to test and to package semiconductors, beginning with Mexico, Panama and Costa Rica," Blinken said as he opened a meeting with counterparts from 11 countries of Latin America.The ministerial meeting was being held as part of the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity, a program which President Joe Biden launched two years ago.