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#Mexico: #AMLO shields the dictatorships of Havana, Caracas and Managua & What is to be done? Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJOpinion

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🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#Mexico: #AMLO shields the dictatorships of Havana, Caracas and Managua & What is to be done? Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-amlo-blackmailing-biden-joint-communique-rewrite-mexico-cuba-venezuela-cd68cac5

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0:00.0

This is a CBSI on the world. I'm John Matchler. Mexico, integral to the success of North America and indeed into the Americas.

0:12.0

There's an election coming. The all-powerful, very popular

0:16.2

President Amlow in conversation with the White House over the southern border.

0:21.9

I welcome Mary Anisejo-Gr, the America columnist and editor for the Wall Street

0:26.4

Journal editorial page.

0:28.0

To help me understand the case of two communiques, one from Washington and one from Mexico City, that do not

0:37.9

say the same thing about the cause of the enormous surge at the southern border.

0:43.4

Mary, a very good evening to you.

0:45.8

Two communique's, presumably there was a deal of coordination between the two, with the detail you have in your column that seems significant is that

0:56.0

the U.S. communic case says that a cause of the heavy migration is democratic decline in the hemisphere in Central America throughout

1:06.1

the Americas. The Mexican version does not say that and that is a puzzle. Why so Mary? How did this come about? Good evening to you.

1:16.0

Well good evening, John. It's funny that you say to communicate because actually when you know they had this meeting together and there should be a single

1:24.3

communique and what happens is each country puts up the communique out of the

1:29.6

the meeting and and the communiques match.

1:33.0

But in fact, the U.S. put one up at the White House in English and Mexico put another copy

1:40.2

of the same agreement or the same announcement, the Communicate, on its government website

1:47.9

in Spanish and several people who follow both countries closely noticed that they did not match.

1:57.0

And in the English language version that the White House posted, it named Democratic decline as one of the root causes of migration.

2:07.5

And as I said in my column, Venezuela and Cuba are two of the largest senders of migrants during this whole crisis.

2:15.5

I think Venezuela is the largest country of origin for the migrants and Cuba is close

2:21.1

behind Cuba being much smaller.

2:24.0

So the Mexican version in Spanish omitted the words democratic decline

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