December 3, 2024 from Mexico City
Claudia Sheinbaum, president of Mexico
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated today the need to lift the economic blockades imposed by the United States on Cuba and Venezuela while speaking of the importance of addressing causes of the migration phenomenon.
“The best way to reduce migration, if that is in Washington’s interest, is to address the root cause of migration, which is need, poverty, essentially. (…) and also the blockades that exist against Venezuela and Cuba, which affect the people,” she said.
Last Thursday, Sheinbaum said that during the conversation held last week with the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, she proposed to put an end to these blockades, which cause “the people to suffer and a phenomenon of migration to occur” like this.
In response to a question at her usual press conference, the president said on Tuesday that when the formal dialogue with the president-elect and his team takes place, they will address several issues, including migration.
“Just as Mexico supports Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala with people who join the Sembrando Vida and Jóvenes Construcción del Futuro programs, we will continue to insist,” she said.
She again raised the humanitarian strategy implemented by her country, which “attends to migrants before they reach the northern border,” and expressed her agreement with the opening of legal migration channels.
She added that the United States “needs migrant workers to allow the development of its economy.”
She said that if there is a deportation from the neighboring northern country, as Trump has threatened, the authorities of this Latin American nation are preparing for it. “To welcome all the Mexicans who for some reason are deported from the United States. It is our obligation,” she said.