Mia Mottley

I'm not even asking you to take a haircut, which really and truly you should, but I'm not asking you for the haircut.

And you don't have to worry about whether I'm going to default or not.

You're just giving me the ability to fix my stuff and move again.

So let me knock some wood hard because if we get hit, these clauses now allow me to get just under 20% of GDP.

released over a two-year period for me to fix up the infrastructure damage.

For you to get back to the place where you can pay people back.

Exactly.

It becomes a more sustainable model, essentially.

Exactly.

I'm listening to you saying this and I'm going, I can't help but draw parallels between what's broken...

in many societies, forget on a geopolitical level.

I think about the United States.

You look at what's happening in France right now, and then we can go to African countries, South Africa being one of them.

The amount of people

who are one car accident away from completely being destitute, the amount of people who are one medical procedure away from being completely wiped out, the amount of people who will have one moment where- Forbearance is called.

But what's mind blowing to me, what's mind blowing is if these, I always wonder why can't these companies who are in charge of this, why can't these companies see

that the person being given an opportunity to get back to whole becomes better for them long-term than by squeezing them when they have the very little that's left.

I gave a speech in Algeria last week, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Friday, where I quoted Derek Walcott, who is Nobel laureate for literature from St.

Lucia.

And there's a poem that he has that talks about the reassembling of the broken vase and that the love that it takes to reassemble makes it stronger.