A day after the Mexican government announced that it would lead a movement against the sanctions and blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States and its allies, Mexican authorities have defended their plans and have ruled out the possibility of generating tensions with Washington.
The Mexican Foreign Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, has denied that the announcement – made the day before by the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador – would generate discomfort in the United States, alleging that Mexico has different interests, as he said in an interview with ‘La Jornada’.
«We are allies, but we do not have identical interests. Mexico is a Latin American country, we are a Spanish-speaking country and we come from very great civilizations, such as the Mayan,» Ebrard said.
The head of Mexican diplomacy stressed that there is no desire to upset the United States or to generate friction in this position, recalling that this is an approach he has already conveyed on other occasions to U.S. President Joe Biden.
In this sense, Ebrard recalled that Cuba played «an important role» in the preparation of the peace talks between the Government of Colombia and the National Liberation Army (ELN), denying the accusations that led the United States in 2021 to add Havana to the list of countries sponsoring international terrorism.
In addition, he stressed that the blockade «has had a significant impact on the island, where there are almost eleven million inhabitants and which causes them so much suffering», as he stated to the aforementioned newspaper.
On Saturday, López Obrador announced that his country will lead a movement against the sanctions and blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States and its allies.
«Mexico will lead a more active movement so that all countries unite and defend the independence and sovereignty of Cuba. Nothing about treating Cuba as a terrorist country or putting them on the blacklist of alleged terrorist countries. Cuba is a deeply humane people and government, long live the dignified people of Cuba,» announced the Mexican president after meeting in Mexico City with his Cuban counterpart, Miguel Díaz-Canel.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
