MIAMI, United States.- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said this Tuesday during his morning conference that he will not go to the Summit of the Americas if the United States does not invite all Latin American leaders, referring to Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, whose regimes have been excluded from the meeting.
“If it is excluded, if everyone is not invited, a representation of the Mexican government will go, but I would not go, the foreign minister would represent me” Marcelo Ebrard, said the left-wing president, who returned in the last hours of a tour of Central America that included Cuba.
“I do not want the same policy to continue in America, and I want, in fact, to assert independence and sovereignty and demonstrate for universal brotherhood. We are not for confrontation, we are for brotherhood, ”she emphasized.
“We are about to resolve this matter. We have a very good relationship with the government of President Biden and we want everyone to be invited. This is the position of Mexico”, he pointed out, according to the EFE news agency.
Last Sunday, Mother’s Day, during his visit to the island, López Obrador assured that he would insist on the president of the United States, Joe Biden, to summon all the countries of the continent to the conclave, which will take place next month in Los Angeles, Calif.
The Summit of the Americas, from which the United States announced that the regimes of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela would be excluded, will especially address the migration crisis.
López Obrador’s statements, less than 24 hours after returning from Cuba, have provoked a wave of reactions in his country, such as that of the former Mexican ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhan, who described the Moderna leader’s position as a “own goal and nonsense”.
“It is an own goal for the priority interests of the country’s foreign policy, and for the most important relationship for our country and that, as the president himself has implicitly recognized when supporting the renegotiation of NAFTA, is essential for the well-being and prosperity of the countries. Mexicans, including the 11 million, of which five million are undocumented, of Mexicans in the United States,” the former diplomat told El Universal newspaper.
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