um day eight [Music] you got this in here the eighth day of the mission was very special one for me jose the interview is set up and ready you have four minutes and 30 seconds to do it i was told i was delighted to hear carlos a famous mexican reporter who had been following my story for some time truth be told i was terrified at the thought of knowing that millions of people in latin america were going to see my interview it was only after i returned and conversed with him that i found out he felt the same way this was a historic interview as it was the first live interview from space conducted in spanish the minutes went by so quickly that i felt my time was up just as i was getting started we we talked about the view of mexico from space including the attractive coast of the state of quintana roo and the yucatan peninsula we also spoke about my inability to detect borders that divide earth into countries there are no borders from what i can see up here our world leaders should see how beautiful and precious our world looks from this perspective i said to the reporter one world from up there huh yeah you know interesting story in there jackal with respect to what happened after that you know i i basically uh said you know the the most beautiful thing there was two things that two takeaways the first one had to do with what you just mentioned is that i was able to see canada the us and mexico but what struck me in awe and that’s so beautiful is that we couldn’t i couldn’t differentiate where canada ended the u s began or where the u s ended in mexico began and and this aha moment i said man i had to go out of this world to come to this conclusion that down there were all just one because borders are human-made concepts designed to separate us and how sad because from my perspective we’re just one down there and it’d be great to have our world leaders give to give them this opportunity because i’ll assure you our world will be much better now the thing that what the news got out of all this when i came home and you can look up the new york times and the la times came up with the headlines saying a mexican american astronaut wants to open borders that’s what they got out of this my story i say good grief yeah but yeah everything has to be politicized they want to get people to click on those headlines exactly and uh and which i found it so sad because i said yeah i wasn’t even talking about that i was just talking about the concept that we’re just one down there you know and uh but somehow from there they got the fact that i wanted to remove all borders and get let everybody come into the u s what can i say that’s the uh that’s the media for you yeah
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