HAVANA, Cuba.- The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has announced that he will not attend the Summit of the Americas scheduled for next June in the city of Los Angeles, if the White House insists on excluding from the cites the dictatorial regimes of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. However, and since he knows what is at stake, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard will take his place.
AMLO’s words rather reveal a crisis of reluctant megalomania, as if his absence could cause irreparable damage to the smooth running of the Summit. That capricious old man’s tantrum, justified with the chant of uniting the great Latin American homeland, occurred because Obrador knows very well who he is messing with. That’s why he hasn’t hesitated to put together a “piñita” with the plague-ridden in the region to confront the most “pressable” tenant the White House has had since Jimmy Carter.
The Mexican, who in the Trump era remained point in the mouth, has harshly attacked Biden since he assumed the presidency of the United States. More than once he has criticized him for not lifting the sanctions on Cuba and now, almost on the eve of the Summit, he appears with a boycott joined by President Luis Arce (Bolivia) and 14 countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). ).
The Latin American left is making all the noise it can to force Biden to sit at the table with dictators. After two years in office, the conciliatory spirit of the Democrat has been interpreted as a weakness of character, and those who yesterday did not dare to cross insolence with Trump, today have decided to go all out in an extremely delicate context due to the economic crisis and the war in Ukraine.
Joe Biden has been caught between his campaign promises, the domestic situation and the sharp turn that the world scene has taken after Russia’s aggression. From a geopolitical perspective, the White House needs to be on good terms with Latin American nations, given Putin’s interest in closer relations with the “progressive” governments of the continent. But giving in to López Obrador’s blackmail would have a high political cost for Biden and the Democratic party, a few months before the midterm elections.
If AMLO’s visit to Cuba was of any use, it was to demonstrate how committed the current Mexican government is to the Cuban dictatorship, which he insists on calling “revolution.” In his speech read before Miguel Díaz-Canel, the founder of Morena, between fanatical and decrepit, he said he trusted “the capacity of the revolution to be reborn”, thus admitting the death of his political-ideological paradigm; an end that occurred decades ago and from which there is no possible resurrection.
López Obrador knows very well what Cuba is, and what could happen if the Castro dictatorship were completely isolated from the international community, a more than deserved punishment for its support of Russia in the war against Ukraine. Publicly announcing that Mexico will hire 500 Cuban doctors is a sign that the regime is scraping the bottom of the piggy bank, and exhausting the few influences it has left.
AMLO not only supports the system of exploitation to which Cuban doctors are subjected. It has also facilitated the new exodus induced by Castroism to take pressure off the social pot. Under his mandate, the Mexican authorities have pocketed millions of dollars at the expense of trafficking islanders seeking to reach the southern border of the United States; a round deal both for the airlines, the coyotes and the drug traffickers, as well as for the politicians of both countries.
Subtly, López Obrador made Díaz-Canel understand that it is necessary to change the modus operandi so that the criminal left, disguised as a humanist revolution, can legitimately continue sailing in the troubled sea of Western politics. Between promises and praise, he warned, for those who know how to read between the lines, that Mexico will not be able to do much more if the regime insists on solving the Cuban problem with the same formulas that have proven ineffective for more than sixty years.
The Mexican president knows Castroism well. He knows that it is more feasible to put pressure on Biden than to talk some sense into a mob of greedy fools. Although his plan not to attend the Summit is unlikely to change the White House decision regarding Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, he knows that this is a magnificent moment for the continental left to advance as much as possible, before the Republicans win more seats in Congress and become stronger for the 2024 elections.
As far as Cuba is concerned, the July 11 crackdown shattered any chance that Joe Biden would initiate a new thaw. Much to his chagrin, the democrat has been forced to proceed cautiously, granting license here, turning a blind eye there, to maintain flirtation with a dictatorship willing to serve the Kremlin’s darkest interests.
The attempt to bullying led by AMLO against the Biden administration, means as much as Cuba’s abstention in the UN when the issue of the invasion of Ukraine is addressed. It is a hypocritical attitude that in no way alters the order of events. Mexico will be at the Summit of the Americas even if López Obrador does not attend, in the same way that Cuba supports Russia even if it publicly refrains from taking sides. The rest is chochera, puyas and rhetoric.
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