Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard has stressed that the relationship between his country and Cuba is at its best moment «in decades» after the visit of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel to Mexico on Saturday.
Ebrard highlighted in particular the Cuban collaboration that «strengthens the Mexican health system» by sending doctors. In return, Mexico has proposed to strengthen the Cuban electrical system and diplomatic support to achieve the lifting of the U.S. blockade.
In addition, Ebrard has revealed that Díaz-Canel and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador have discussed in their meeting on Saturday to convene a forum of countries with progressive governments -Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, among others- to reach agreements on concrete actions on food security, measures against inflation and other issues, reports the newspaper ‘La Jornada’.
Ebrard also referred to the «unjust» blockade and sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies on Cuba 62 years ago and which «have inflicted suffering on the Cuban people, since Cuba’s classification as a terrorist country means that they have no access to the financial system and that means, for example, that they cannot access spare parts for their electricity plants».
Specifically, Ebrard explained that Mexico will present the proposal to lift the blockade on Cuba in all the forums where it participates, such as the G-20, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States or its meetings with the European Union.
Díaz-Canel arrived on Saturday in Mexico on an official visit in which López Obrador presented him with the decoration of the Order of the Aztec Eagle in a ceremony at the altar of the great acropolis of the archeological site of Edzná, in the state of Campeche, in the south of the country.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
