We will get along well with the US, in a relationship of respect: Sheinbaum

Alma E. Muñoz

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The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, July 22, 2024, p. 5

Santiago de Querétaro, Qro., President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his next successor, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, affirmed that they will always demand respect for Mexico from other governments. We don’t want to be anyone’s colony again.said the federal president, while the former head of government stated that she will have a good relationship with the president that the people of the United States elect.

His statements came moments before Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the presidential race in the neighboring country.

In an interview, before the last act she had with López Obrador on their sixth joint tour, Sheinbaum Pardo assured that there is no problem with the United States, but We will ask for respect for Mexico, alwaysand also for the government team.

We, he added, We will always respect the decision of the people of the United States. We will get along well with whoever they decide will be their president, we will continue to work together. But it is important that the colleagues who work with us and our country are always treated well..

In response to a direct question about the references made to Mexico by Republican candidate Donald Trump, he stressed that the day before yesterday He spoke well of the (Mexico, United States, Canada) trade treaty, that it will be maintained. When asked to use the country in his electoral speeches, he mentioned: We will always ask for respect for Mexico. But we will get along well..

Upon arriving at the Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez Sports Unit for an evaluation of welfare pensions, still in the van in which he traveled with President López Obrador, he insisted: We have to always defend our team and Mexico.

The Executive did not issue any statements there and focused on attending to supporters, taking photos with them and listening to requests.

Moments later, in his speech before hundreds of people who offered him expressions of affection and gratitude, the federal president highlighted: We will always have good relations with all peoples, with all governments of the world, but they will respect us.

As well as We will respect other governments, other peoples and other nations, and they will continue to respect Mexico, because we do not want to be a colony of any foreign country again. We want to continue being a free, independent and sovereign country. That is our beloved Mexico..

He had already left when Biden announced he would no longer seek re-election.