Experts say economic mismanagement and political repression are largely to blame for the tide of migrants leaving those countries.
The United States has sanctioned both governments over what it considers the suppression of democracy. López Obrador suggested the sanctions are because of ideological differences and not to uphold human rights, and said the “sanctions and blockades cannot be maintained.”Petro’s government has been criticised for doing little to stop the industrial-scale smuggling of migrants through Colombia.
López Obrador also has slammed US aid for Ukraine and said the United States should spend some of the money sent to Ukraine on economic development in Latin America. “They don’t do anything,” he said Friday. “It’s more, a lot more, what they authorise for the war in Ukraine than what they give to help with poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean.”He called Friday for the US “to remove blockades and stop harassing independent and free countries.” He said there should be “an integrated plan for cooperation so the Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Ecuadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans wouldn’t be forced to emigrate.
There has been a surge in Venezuelan migrants moving through Mexico in recent weeks in a bid to reach the US border. Many of the migrants say deteriorating economic and political conditions in their home country led them to make the journey. Mexico has condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine but has adopted a policy of neutrality and has refused to participate in sanctions. Mexico also continues to buy 2020-vintage COVID vaccines from Russia and Cuba.
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