SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- President Miguel Díaz-Canel confirmed his attendance at the inauguration of the Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum on October 1, according to reports in the press of the Aztec country, an ally of the Cuban regime.
Until the moment16 leaders have confirmed that they will attend Claudia Sheinbaum’s inauguration. Along with Díaz-Canel will be the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; the Colombian Gustavo Petro; the Chilean Gabriel Boric. Thirteen from Latin America and the Caribbean, and three from Africa, announced that they will travel to Mexico, but no European leader has commented on the matter.
US First Lady Jill Biden will also attend the meeting on behalf of the President, amid heightened tensions between the governments of both countries over the approval of judicial reform.
For his part, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada and another partner in the Free Trade Agreement (T-MEC), has not confirmed his attendance either.
According to the media The CountryRussian leader Vladimir Putin was not on the preliminary list of confirmed attendees, so it is not known whether Díaz-Canel will coincide at the ceremony with one of his strongest allies. It is also not known who will represent the Venezuelan delegation.
Claudia Sheinbaum She will become the first woman in the history of Mexico to occupy the National Palace. On October 1, she will succeed Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who was her “mentor” throughout the campaign.
A graduate in Physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Claudia Sheinbaum began her political career in 2000 as Secretary of the Environment in the Mexico City government of López Obrador. Before that, she headed the Tlalpan Mayor’s Office in Mexico City, where she faced the consequences of the 2017 earthquake.
Sheinbaum is one of the founders of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the party for which she ran for president. She has been a close collaborator of Andrés Manuel López Obrador since his time as head of government of Mexico City (2000-2005) and accompanied him in his presidential campaigns of 2012 and 2018. She was head of government of Mexico City between 2018 and 2023, and has a solid background in science, humanism and politics.
Sheinbaum does not mind supporting the Cuban regime, and has shown her support on several occasions. When Silvio Rodriguez He gave a free concert in the Zócalo, the president not only praised him, but gave him the keys to the city.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, as governor of Mexico City, she was the first to bring Cuban doctors to join hospitals of the capital government, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Navy and Social Security.
Recently, with their support, the state of Tamaulipas hired 37 Cuban doctors, seeking to cover the lack of personnel in rural and remote areas.
