Alonso Urrutia and Emir Olivares
The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, September 4, 2024, p. 13
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has rejected reports of an alleged telephone conversation with his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, to discuss the political crisis in Venezuela. We don’t plan to talk
he responded to the insistence that such a rapprochement between the two leaders could take place for that purpose.
During his morning press conference, he took advantage of the question to comment that (Maduro) He is our friend. He has our full support. He is facing an attack by conservatives who feel like they are the owners; just as here they felt like the owners of Mexico, there also a few potentates, but he is doing well and the people are supporting him.
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He recommended that he remain supported by the people, because only with this support can the transformation of countries be undertaken, since he considered that it is a contradiction to seek changes in a society with the help of the privileged, That is a huge mistake, they are not loyal, they betray.
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On the other hand, in response to a specific question, he said that the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will arrive in Mexico on the 30th. He will be here and will come to Claudia Sheinbaum’s inauguration. He comes to talk and will stay for the inauguration. Well, the truth is, it is to say goodbye; other leaders will also come.
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However, he declined to offer further details about who will attend the ceremony on October 1, because that is the responsibility of the president-elect and the next foreign minister, Juan Ramón de la Fuente.
