In the interview at the Oval Office of the White House, López Obrador told Biden that the great challenges demand of us a daring program of development and well-being, in addition to further strengthening the ties of friendship and cooperation.
He explained that despite the trilateral trade agreement between the two countries and Canada, there are margins to intensify the bilateral relationship, for example, in the case of high inflation rates, and also recognize that we are not producing enough, and the current reality shows that it is essential to do so.
Next, he listed the five points of his proposal, the first on energy crisis in which, after pointing out that Mexico allocates 72 percent of its crude oil production to the United States, it commits to double the supply of this fuel , which would be a considerable support.
As a second, it made available more than a thousand km of gas pipelines along the southern border with Mexico to transport gas from Texas to New Mexico, Arizona and California, for a volume capable of generating up to 750 megawatts of electricity and supplying three million people approximately.
He proposed in the third place to continue eliminating tariffs because there are some others that could suspend and do the same with regulatory measures and procedures in the trade of food and other goods that lowers prices for consumers.
The fourth refers to a private and public investment plan between the two countries to produce goods that strengthen their markets, and avoid imports from other continents, and gas liquefaction plants, fertilizers, solar parks that will be built with US investors, laying transmission lines in the border states.
He recalled the sovereign decision to nationalize lithium has been made, a mineral that is essential to advance the purpose of not depending on fossil fuels.
The last point refers to the ordering of the migratory flow and allowing the arrival in the United States of Mexican and Central American technical and professional workers from different disciplines, with temporary work visas.
He asked his counterpart to “regularize the uncertainty” of migrants who have been working in the United States for years, even though “his opponents scream to the skies.”
For his part, Biden was confident of “solving bilateral problems” with the help of the López Obrador government. “I am very anxious to see how we can address those five points that you mentioned”. After describing the migration crisis as a hemispheric problem, he promised to create legal job opportunities for migrants.
In this public part of the interview, the subject of pardoning the creator of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, who will be extradited to the United States by decision of the British government, and that López Obrador announced he would deal with Biden, was not discussed.
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