Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador will boycott the ninth Summit of the Americas, which opens Monday in Los Angeles, to protest against the United States ’decision to exclude Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
I’m not going to the summit because we’re not inviting all the countries of America. I believe in the need to change the policy imposed for centuries: the exclusion, he declared Monday morning in front of the press. Mexico will still represent its Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard.
” I deeply regret this situation, but I do not accept that anyone puts himself above other countries. I do not accept hegemony, neither from China, nor from Russia, nor from any country. “
This pavement on the pond is not a surprise in itself, as the president of the nationalist left has threatened in weeks to avoid the meeting if Washington excludes its three pet peeves in Latin America.
A White House official justified the decision Monday by explaining the condition of anonymity the United States continues to have reservations about the lack of democratic space and respect for human rights in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Very popular in his country, Mr. Lopez Obrador indicated that he will still meet President Joe Biden in July at the White House, where he claims he socializes very well. I wanted to talk to him about the topic of the unification of the whole of Americahe argued, citing the example of the European Union.
On the occasion of the summit, which will be held until Friday, President Biden wants to conclude a regional agreement on immigration cooperation, a topic that is exploding in U.S. politics, and reaped fierce criticism from the republican opposition.
Mexico, which shares 3,200 kilometers of the border with the United States, is a major player in this case, as it is the last country reached by hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing poverty and violence in their country before trying to cross the US border. .
According to the U.S. Border Patrol, more than 1.7 million migrants attempted to enter the United States in the 2020-2021 fiscal year. The phenomenon is mounting, as this number is close to 1.3 million for the first six months of the current financial year.
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