Roberto Garduño and Néstor Jiménez
La Jornada newspaper
Tuesday, January 4, 2022, p. 3
The government is willing to offer Julian Assange asylum, the President reiterated. In the National Palace, he considered that the US administration you must act with humanism. Assange is ill and it would be a show of solidarity, of fraternity, to allow him to receive asylum in the country, to resolve to live, including Mexico
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A year ago, the president announced the willingness to open the doors of the country to the activist, and now he also realized that he had interceded for him with Donald Trump.
I’m going to say something, because one day it will be known. Before the end of the administration of President Donald Trump, I sent him a letter asking him to be exonerated, to be pardoned. You see that at the end of the governments in the United States presidents can make use of this power. Well I sent that letter; had no response. I offer to make it known today and I endorse Mexico’s commitment to comply by offering asylum and asking the United States government for a humanitarian attitude.
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In this context, he highlighted that the right to asylum it is part of our foreign policy, which is a source of pride; It also has a regulation in the sense that the one who receives the benefit of asylum will act with respect, first, the laws of our country and also could not intervene in external affairs
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