Mexico City, December 22 (Prensa Latina) Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador estimated today that the United States government should have a dialogue with the Cuban government as it does with Venezuela.
At his morning press conference in Oaxaca about what was discussed in his telephone conversation with President Joe Biden yesterday, the Mexican president reported that there are many issues, not just migration, although many have to do with this issue and the economy.
He acknowledged that there has been an increase in the number of migrants passing through Mexico en route to the United States, particularly Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans and Ecuadorians, and that the number of people concentrated in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, crossing the Rio Grande wanted to cross, had risen.
This, he said, has affected and limited the normal functioning of border crossings and bridges and we have spoken about it and will help as always. We seek, he explained, agreements not only with the United States, but also with Venezuela, so that differences can be addressed, and with Cuba.
We would very much like to see a dialogue opened between Cuba and the United States, like the one already underway with Venezuela, where progress is being made, sanctions are being lifted and agreements are being reached, because this time politics and not force will be used or blocking . He stressed that the policy was invented to avoid the use of violence.
He praised the fact that the situation in Guatemala is being formalized because the instability there is due to a certain opposition to Bernardo Arévalo, who won the presidency with a large majority of the people, but there are always people who oppose democracy, because they want them their own way, like , and announced that he was invited to his inauguration on January 14th, he said that he would like to go and that the person chosen will be a good president.
He confirmed that, in fact, a group of senior US government officials led by Secretary of State Antony Blinken will come to Mexico in January to follow up on the issues discussed in the phone call with Biden, and that the Secretary of Homeland Security will also come among them: Alejandro Mayorkas.
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