In his morning press conference at the National Palace, he responded to a question on migration and border problems, especially with Texas. He said that for decades there has been no development program for Latin America and the Caribbean with U.S. participation and revealed that he spoke about it with President Biden and will continue to insist on it.

I would like, he said, that he would raise it and say it publicly, apply a program, an investment commitment for Latin America and the Caribbean and seek an agreement with Venezuela and Cuba, remove the blockade and establish a new policy, of real good neighborhood, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed, although conservatives did not like it.

He insisted on the fact that the causes of migration must be addressed, otherwise it would be very difficult to face this phenomenon, and the poorest countries must be helped.

Cuba is unacceptable because it is the people who suffer, it affects them economically and socially, and why is it their fault that there is this medieval, inhuman policy of retaliation, of blocking a country just for political and ideological reasons.

Where is humanism and fraternity? It is the most unjust thing there can be.

At the UN, where human rights, freedom of expression, the right to live free from misery, the right to the free expression of ideas is to be enforced, instead of respecting those rights, despite the fact that it was created on that basis to enforce democracy and justice, almost 200 countries vote against the blockade of Cuba and only two, one of them with the right to veto, vote against it, and that’s it.

Is it that 200 countries are wrong and two are the holders of the absolute truth, he asked.

If this does not change, how are we going to humanize the world and solve the great and serious problems of humanity? The proposal we are making is to go ahead with these claims; the conservatives in the United States are not going to like it, it is not pragmatism, it is doing the right thing.

I am sure that many people there will support such a measure, of solution.

Not the anti-immigrant, classist, racist ones, but there are many people in that country and all over the world who practice humanism, solidarity, love for others, respect for strangers, very humane people who will support it.

He gave as an example of extremists the governor of Texas, Greg Abbot, who apparently seeks to be the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States, and asked himself: How are they going to vote for a person who is anti-migrant when his state and the country are due to migration, or have they forgotten that Texas used to belong to Mexico, and that it has its people full of Gonzalez or Ramirez surnames, as if it were Tamaulipas or Nuevo Leon and that is what the whole nation is like?

He said that Biden himself told him that currently 26 out of every 100 elementary school students are Hispanic and speak Spanish.

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