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The US will never, ever accept this, but it's a brilliant use of leverage by Mexico's President AMLO.
Biden wants AMLO's help to stop immigration. So AMLO demanded that the US:
-end its illegal blockade of Cuba
-lift its illegal sanctions on Venezuela
-give aid to poor countries
So basically they are asking the United States to stop behaving like a terrorist rogue state.
And they are asking for some money toward counteracting several decades of economic and political oppression engineered by US foreign policy.
@LeftLeaningLeahGreen1mo1MO
"terrorist rogue state" . As if Maduro getting his country sanctioned was somehow the US's fault
I was more thinking along the lines of the US sphere of influence in Latin America, all the covert interference of US intelligence in the electoral process in these nations, all of the sanctions meant to punish non-compliance with US interests but which cause suffering starvation and death among regular civilians, and also hyperinflation (food prices doubled overnight, literally)...the sanctions themselves are a form of terrorism. Sometimes the sanctions end up hurting not so much the target but other poorer nations that depend on an export of the target--for example some Libyans are now starving for lack of being able to buy grain from Russia, which they have depended on in recent years to feed their population but which now lays rotting in the fields due to economic sanctions imposed by the US empire on Russia.
