The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced on Monday his intention to pressure his American counterpart, Joe Biden, to resume dialogue with Cuba.
After a recent meeting with the representative of the Havana regime, Miguel Diaz-Canel, the Mexican president said that he would convey to Biden the details of the conversations held over the weekend with the aim of addressing the growing flow of migrants from Latin America to the United States, reported Reuters.
He affirmed that he will propose to the US president to resume dialogue with Cuba, when Cuban citizens have represented one of the largest groups detained on the border between the United States and Mexico.
López Obrador, ally of the Cuban regime, argues that the migration crisis in response to the United States economic embargo on Cuba constitutes "a flagrant violation of human rights" that must be lifted.
López Obrador met on Sunday in the southern state of Chiapas with Latin American leaders, including Cuba's President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro.
The meeting It occurred in a climate of migration crisis where Mexico faces a growing flow of undocumented immigrants of those two nationalities.
He government of Mexico He noted that the talks focused on addressing the underlying causes of migration, including economic development, and that Mexico is offering cooperation through social programs, as well as in sectors such as oil and gas, electricity and renewable energy.
In a regular press conference he explained that one of the agreements reached at the meeting was to promote bilateral dialogue between the United States and Cuba, with the aim of reaching an agreement and resolving pending issues.
Likewise, the Mexican president plans to address this issue at an upcoming summit with his American counterpart, Joe Biden, which will take place in San Francisco next month.
Ahead of the talks, López Obrador expressed interest in encouraging leaders to consider creating centers to process asylum applications in migrants' countries of origin rather than in Mexico.
After the meeting with Díaz-Canel, he assured that he will continue to help the people of Cuba in everything he can "including oil."
"They are a people that is suffering from an inhuman, unjust blockade, and we cannot turn our backs on them," said the president when asked if oil shipments to Cuba had been suspended due to the conflict that this could bring with the Biden Administration. .
AMLO said that everything was an invention and that Americans are respectful of not discussing these issues.
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