MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stated on Monday (Oct 23) he would press his US counterpart Joe Biden to open dialogue with Cuba after internet hosting talks on the weekend aimed toward containing a pointy enhance in US-bound migration from Latin America.
Cubans have been among the many nationalities most frequently apprehended on the US-Mexico border in current months, and Lopez Obrador argues the US financial embargo of the nation is “a flagrant violation of human rights” and ought to be ended.
Lopez Obrador on Sunday met leaders from Latin America, together with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, within the southern state of Chiapas to discover methods to get migration beneath management.
“It was exactly one of many agreements of yesterday’s assembly: that bilateral dialogue be promoted between the US and Cuba to succeed in an settlement and resolve pending points,” he advised a daily information convention.
Lopez Obrador is because of meet Biden throughout a summit in San Francisco subsequent month, and stated he would increase Cuba with him.
He famous he would additionally current Biden with what the Latin American leaders had set out as priorities on migration and financial growth throughout their weekend talks.
Mexico’s authorities stated these discussions centered on addressing the foundation causes of migration, together with growth, and that it was providing cooperation by way of social applications in addition to on oil and fuel, electrical energy and renewable vitality.
Earlier than the talks, Lopez Obrador stated he would encourage the leaders to contemplate organising facilities for dealing with asylum claims in migrants’ international locations of origin as a substitute of Mexico.