MEXICO CITY, 3 Oct: Mexico\u2019s president said Monday that about 10,000 migrants per day are heading to the U.S. border, and he blamed U.S. economic sanctions on countries like Cuba and Venezuela for the influx.
\nPresident Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador said the number of migrants reaching Mexico\u2019s northern border with the United States was partly due to about 6,000 migrants per day crossing into Mexico from Guatemala over the past week.
\nHe said many of those migrants are traveling on a route through Central America that includes the jungle-clad Darien Gap region between Panama and Colombia.
\nL\u00f3pez Obrador seemed to join Colombian President Gustavo Petro in blaming the situation on U.S. sanctions on countries like Venezuela and Cuba, whose citizens make up a large part of the migrant flow. Experts say economic mismanagement and political repression are largely to blame for the tide of migrants leaving those countries.
\nThe United States has sanctioned both governments over what it considers the suppression of democracy. L\u00f3pez Obrador suggested the sanctions are because of ideological differences and not to uphold human rights, and said the \u201csanctions and blockades cannot be maintained.\u201d
\nPetro\u2019s government has been criticize d for doing little to stop the industrial-scale smuggling of migrants through Colombia. And L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s administration has done little to stop migrants from hopping freight trains toward the U.S. border, until the country\u2019s largest railway line complained last month and stopped some trains itself, citing safety risks.
\nL\u00f3pez Obrador also has slammed U.S. aid for Ukraine and said the United States should spend some of the money sent to Ukraine on economic development in Latin America.
\n\u201cThey (the U.S.) don\u2019t do anything,\u201d he said Friday. \u201cIt\u2019s 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.\u201d
\nHe called Friday for the U.S. \u201cto remove blockades and stop harassing independent and free countries.\u201d He said there should be \u201can integrated plan for cooperation so the Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Ecuadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans wouldn\u2019t be forced to emigrate.\u201d
\nThere has been a surge in Venezuelan migrants moving through Mexico in recent weeks in a bid to reach the U.S. border. Many of the migrants say deteriorating economic and political conditions in their home country led them to make the journey.
\nMexico has condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine but has adopted a policy of neutrality and has refused to participate in sanctions. Mexico also continues to buy 2020-vintage COVID vaccines from Russia and Cuba. (AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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