Cuban President Raul Castro harshly criticized US President Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along the Mexican border.
"The new agenda of the US government threatens to unleash an extreme and egotistical trade policy that will impact the competitiveness of our foreign trade; violate environmental agreements ... hunt down and deport migrants," Reuters cited Castro as saying.
He said migration was due to growing inequality and poverty caused by an unjust international economic system and that a wall along the Mexican border was therefore "irrational" and aimed at all Latin Americans, not just Mexicans.
"You can’t contain poverty, catastrophes and migrants with walls, but with cooperation, understanding and peace," Castro said.
