I have a friend on Facebook who I met way back on the New York Times forums who is a doctor in Brazil, when I met her she was a student, and we hung out on the South America forum on the New York Times. Now she has been a doctor for 20 years in Brazil. Covid scared her bad, she was an emergency room doctor during Covid, she was right on the front lines, she was so scared, she thought she was going to die. The whole Corona crisis scared her bad. She has had a hard life, they made her a doctor who has to deal with people with Cancer, and AIDS, and then she had to deal with the Corona crisis. Fortunately she has seen improvements in medicine and more Cancer patients are surviving, and we have come a long way on the treatment of AIDS and the AIDS patients can survive now. And thanks to Dolly Parton and others we have made progress in the battle against the Corona crisis. And my friend in Brazil goes into the ghettos and she treats the poor people in Brazil.
On the New York Times forums I spent a lot of time trying to improve relations between Latin America and the USA. And President George W. Bush wanted to expand trade from the top of Alaska to the bottom of Chile. W. noted that we have some of the poorest people in the world right here in our own back yard in Latin America. W. traveled all over Latin America and tried to expand trade between the USA and Latin America.
We need to make our immigrants legal, we need to create a new immigration law which includes a Good Neighbor policy, and we need to expand trade between the USA and Latin America. We can also invest in the ports in Mexico, and we can send cheap goods from Mexico to the poor people of Kentucky, etc, using Mexican truck drivers, etc. And while we build schools in Kentucky, and while we educate and train the people of Kentucky for the jobs of the future, we can send the poor people of Kentucky cheap food and cheap goods from Mexico with Mexican truck drivers. We also need to build more trains, etc, to transport goods, etc.
I also support the United Farm Workers, and workers from Latin America are welcome to work in California with the United Farm Workers to help to grow and raise food, etc.
Salute,
Tony V.