The Mexican president pined over the gravy train to Ukraine as he chided U.S. diplomats over supporting the Eastern European nation with some Western Hemisphere handout suggestions.
While illegal aliens from throughout the world, and in particular South and Central America, have been permitted to traipse through Mexico exacerbating the crisis at the southern border of the United States, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador criticized the use of American tax dollars.
Speaking Friday during high-level economic meetings between the neighboring nations in Washington, D.C., the Associated Press reported on the Mexican leader’s take on U.S. foreign policy with a slight on sanctions and Ukrainian support.
“They don’t do anything,” he said of the U.S. in aiding economic development throughout Latin America. “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.”
As he slammed the billions that the U.S. government had funneled to Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022, Obrador also called for the lifting of sanctions against nations from which aliens had continued to flee in favor of the land of the free.
The Mexican president called for a U.S. program to “remove blockades and stop harassing independent and free countries, an integrated plan for cooperation so the Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Ecuadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans wouldn’t be forced to emigrate.”
Of late, Venezuela has had considerable representation among illegal entries with an estimated 5,000 recently reported camped and waiting for an opportunity to board a train heading for the United States, while encounters have proven violent for officials with Border Patrol.
Border Patrol agent bloodied in migrant brawl as 5,000+ migrants board train to America https://t.co/mH9fw76dCb pic.twitter.com/7rNvycdkpc
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) September 28, 2023
Secretary of State Antony Blinken did not address Obrador’s comments as he and other officials from President Joe Biden’s administration met with counterparts that included Mexican Foreign Secretary Alicia Bárcena and Secretary of Economy Raquel Buenrostro.
Instead, he spoke to expanded trade and said, “By creating the right incentives and business environments and harnessing our two nations’ respective strengths, we have a tremendous opportunity to make North America the most competitive, the most productive, the most dynamic region in the world.”
“We’re continuing to strengthen, to expand, and diversify supply chains in emerging industries like electric vehicles and semiconductors,” he continued regarding a joint initiative reaching across the southern border.
In addition to the economic talks, Blinken was slated to be joined by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland as part of a delegation to Mexico with a focus on the border as Biden has continually been criticized for his failure to address the ever-growing crisis.
Meanwhile, the AP also indicated that Obrador had little concern over threats from Republican lawmakers to cut off foreign aid to Mexico as reportedly estimated “$40 or $50 million” was slammed as “ridiculous.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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