▲ Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard described as extremely successful and very cordial
the meeting with the Cuban delegation.Photo taken from his Twitter account
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Newspaper La Jornada
Monday February 13, 2023, p. 3
Campeche, Camp.., The Secretary of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard, ruled out that the announcement by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that Mexico will lead a movement to promote the cancellation of the US blockade on Cuba generates friction in the relationship with the United States. We are allies, but we do not have identical interests
since our country has kept this position against this measure since 1962.
During an interview at the Campeche airport, where he went to say goodbye to the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, the foreign minister described as extremely successful and very cordial
the bilateral meeting. Cuba is an endearing country for us, it is a brother country. We are very interested in doing well. The Cuban people are 11 million and yes, we consider that it is highly objectionable that a blockade that causes so much suffering is maintained. everything takes a lot of work
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Elaborating on a possible alteration in ties with Washington due to the Mexican position, Ebrard commented that this is based on the vision of López Obrador that these types of measures be abandoned and the blockade be lifted to promote fraternal coexistence in the Americas. I think that in the United States there are many people who are sympathetic to this idea. I don’t think President Joe Biden is against this idea.
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He clarified that the issue of Cuba has not been touched on recently, but you know where we stand. I myself explained it to him when it was the Summit of the Americas and it is not an effort to annoy or have friction with the United States
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He stressed that the relationship between Mexico and the United States is very good, but each country has its own idea of things
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He stressed that there is currently a majority of progressive governments in Latin America: Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Mexico, Chile, Honduras, Cuba and Venezuela. He recalled that there is a negotiation process underway between the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) -which begins today in Mexico-, where Cuba has helped and can be a factor in favor of stability in Latin America.
