 As that organization's international representative, he relocated to the United States to facilitate fundraising in this country.In 1996, in order to better work for social justice and economic development, he helped to found the Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America as an independent US-based non-profit.In 2000, he started the Mesoamerica Peace Movement, and in 2010 the Foundation for Sustainability and Peacemaking in Mesoamerica, a 501 (c) (3).