Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Friday criticized the US for giving so much aid to Ukraine – instead of sending more money to Latin American countries to help boost economic development.
“[The US] do nothing,” Obrador said at a high-level US-Mexico meeting in Washington.
“It is more, much more, what they allow for the war in Ukraine than what they give to help poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
The Mexican leader, 69, asked that part of the money allocated to Ukraine be used to help Latin America and the Caribbean and for the US program to “eliminate sanctions and stop interfering with free and independent countries.”
He said the embargo forced the people of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Ecuador, Guatemala and Honduras to “migrate.”
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador criticized the US for its Ukraine aid. ZUMAPRESS.com
There has been a surge in Venezuelan migrants moving through Mexico in recent weeks in an attempt to reach the US border. Many migrants say the deteriorating economic and political situation in their countries of origin led them to make the journey.
Experts say economic mismanagement and political stagnation are the cause of the flood of migrants leaving Venezuela and Cuba.
The scathing comments came after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and Trade Representative Katherine Tai met with their Mexican counterparts at the State Department.
At the meeting, they focused on trade and economic relations, as well as the fentanyl crisis plaguing the US and Mexico, rather than the issue of poverty.
“By creating the right incentives and business environment and leveraging the strengths of each of the two countries, we have a great opportunity to make North America the most competitive, the most productive, the most dynamic region in the world,” said Blinken.
“We continue to strengthen, expand and diversify supply chains in emerging industries such as electric vehicles and semiconductors,” he said, noting that the US and Mexico are launching new initiatives 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.
With Postal wire
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