Being asked about the current situation on the U.S. border and the end of Title 42, the Mexican leader enlightened in his morning press briefing that the United States must return to the good neighbor policy implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

How can harmony and peace be kept if there is confrontation with neighbors?, he asked, and replied that if Cuba is being blockaded and Venezuela is being inadequately treated, it is impossible to end the crisis.

The first thing, he repeated, is to keep good relations with those closest to him, and he asked again why the differences with Venezuela are not addressed as they do when they need to do so because of the oil issue and the international market.

Why do they not deal with the blockade against Cuba and do not change the foreign policy imposed for over 200 years with all its negative ideological burden and with measures of economic reprisals? This cannot continue and that is why we have to continue working to put an end to it, López Obrador added.

Regarding the suspension of Title 42 and pressures at the Mexican border, López Obrador warned of lies spread by smugglers that entering the United States is free when it is the opposite, that is why we ask to divulge the new measures for legal entry by getting visas that must be called for from the country of origin, and not from Mexico.

He said there is one real thing and it is there is a lot of desperation in the South American nations and something must be done to address the causes, to put an end to poverty which is the major cause of the migration flow, as well as the US foreign policy bears lots of responsibility in this regard.

He warned that there are U.S. lawmakers, politicians and governors deeply interested in having problems at the border, and cited Republican governors Ron DeSantis, who decreed not to employ migrants; and Greg Abbot, who follows the same route, whom he described as opportunistic politicians who would like to produce a big conflict at the border.

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