President Andrés Manuel López Obrador slammed the US for giving so much to the Ukrainian war rather than helping the poverty situation in Latin America.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Friday blasted the US for providing so much aid to Ukraine — rather than sending more money to Latin American countries to help boost economic development.“It’s more, a lot more, what they authorize for the war in Ukraine than what they give to help with poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
The Mexican ruler, 69, is calling for some of the money allocated to Ukraine be used to help Latin America and the Caribbean and for a US program to “remove blockades and stop harassing independent and free countries.” He said the sanctions are forcing Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Ecuadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans to “emigrate.”There has been a surge in Venezuelan migrants moving through Mexico in recent weeks in a bid to reach the US border. Many of the migrants say deteriorating economic and political conditions in their home country led them to make the journey.
“We’re continuing to strengthen, to expand, and diversify supply chains in emerging industries like electric vehicles and semiconductors,” he said, noting that the U.S. and Mexico are launching a new initiative to produce semiconductors. Blinken will also lead a US delegation to Mexico next week with Attorney General Merrick Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Blinken is expected to meet with the Mexican president and the trip will focus on border security and migration.
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