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For: EFE Updated 20 Jan 2022, 9: 27 am EST
On his first year as President of the United States, Joe Biden assured that Latin America is not the backyard of his country, but the striker.
“We used to talk when I was a young man in college in the backyard of the USA, but it’s not the backyard, I think south of the border with Mexico It is the front yard of the United States. We are equal people “, Biden said at a press conference on the occasion of his first year in power, which is fulfilled this 01 of January.
He assured that Washington does not dictate what happens in other parts of the continent: “The problem we have is the great difficulties to compensate for the mistakes we made in the last four years, and it will take some time”, he pointed out.
However, Biden did not respond to a reporter’s question about when he was going to Visit Latin America.
On the other hand lashed out at his predecessor Donald Trump (2009-2022), without mentioning him by name, for “the great damage” he caused to the region by his foreign policy and highlighted that one of the measures adopted by his Government was to hold a summit, in December, of democracies, although some Central American countries were not invited to that meeting.
He added that he is spending a lot of time “talking and trying” regarding the policy towards the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, whom he described as a “dictator”.
And he pointed out that he is dedicating time to Chile and Argentina in the same way, although he clarified that “they are not the same” as Venezuela.
Biden also spoke about immigration and pointed out that people leave their homes in Central America to go to the United States. because “they have real problems”.
In this regard, he spoke of his achievements when he was vice president of Barack Obama (2009-2017)) and recalled that he worked to provide billions of dollars to migrant-sending nations.
For the time being, Biden has failed to push through major immigration reform, as promised, by the narrow Democratic majorities in Congress and in the first months of his Administration he encountered a crisis on the border with the arrival of record numbers of undocumented immigrants.
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