López Obrador has once again insisted that the United States lift the economic blockade on the island that has been in place since 1962, and mentioned that it is “an offense against the Statue of Liberty.”
Mexico City, February 13 (However).- The President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador assured this Monday morning that the blocking to Cuba “is a offense to the Statue of Liberty” and “human dignities”, so it will seek to convince USA to change your position about.
The president explained in his daily press conference that the position of the Mexican government has not changed with his arrival in December 2018, since before, attached to the principles of non-intervention and self-determination of the peoples, he has “condemned” the economic blockade. To Cuba.
“They do not allow Cubans living in the United States to send support. When they put them on a list of terrorist countries, it means that institutions or embassies cannot even open a bank account because they are on the list of supposedly terrorist countries. It is an offense against the Statue of Liberty, it is an offense against human dignities”, said the President.
Likewise, López Obrador explained that it is not only a position of Mexico, but that “the vast majority of the countries of the world are against the blockade”, since every time there is an assembly in the United Nations Organization (UN), “The issue of the blockade of Cuba is put to a vote by all the countries, and only one or two countries either vote against or abstain, [de] about 200 countries.
Last weekend, the president received Miguel Díaz-Canel, his Cuban counterpart, in Campeche in a bilateral meeting where he reiterated his support to lead a fight with other countries to eliminate the commercial blockade maintained by the United States.
He insisted on the issue of the “inhumane” blockade against Cuba and promised to lead a movement with other countries to lift it.
“I offer the President of Cuba that Mexico is going to lead a more active movement so that all the countries unite and defend the independence and sovereignty of Cuba; and nothing to treat them as a terrorist country or put them on the black list of alleged terrorists, they are the people and a government that is profoundly humane. Long live the dignified people of Cuba!” López Obrador said.
For his part, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón ruled out yesterday, February 12, that the Tabasco proposal would generate tension between the Joe Biden and Mexican governments.
The Foreign Minister mentioned that Mexico and the United States are “allies”, but that they do not have “identical interests”, for which reason the Mexican Government will promote the removal of the economic blockade in Cuba.
During his six-year term, which began in 2018, López Obrador has maintained close cooperation and unrestricted support for Cuba in condemning the United States trade embargo.
In addition, just as the head of the Executive branch pointed out that this position is the same that the Mexican Government has maintained since 1962, and that he also hopes that due to the “very good relationship” that exists with the United States, he would not expect any kind of problem in the diplomatic relationship.
In 2021, after protests in which thousands of Cubans took to the streets to demonstrate against the shortage of basic goods and power cuts, the Mexican government sent medicines, food and fuel to the island in what represented the greatest support in humanitarian aid in decades, only comparable to that offered in the time of Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994) when Cuba was experiencing the crisis caused by the collapse of the Soviet bloc.
Mexico was the only country in Latin America that never broke relations with Cuba after the triumph of the revolution, from where, in fact, the bearded leader Fidel Castro left to assemble his guerrilla group, who in 1988 also received the Order of the Aztec Eagle.
However, from the late 1990s until the presence of López Obrador, the once unbreakable ties began to crack, especially to the extent that rulers like Vicente Fox revalued their relationship with the United States.
-With information from AP