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Although President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is counting on the interest of his US counterpart Joe Biden to help turn the tide in America, The Mexican President assessed that reaching such an agreement would be difficult.
For the first time, the Mexican president acknowledged the difficulty of specifying these new horizons – which he has insisted on for months – and he does so right after the video call he had yesterday with Senator Christopher J. Dodd, the white adviser has house for the IX. Summit of the Americas.
“We have confidence and affection in President Biden and we want the proposal to not exclude anyone to be considered (which was led by López Obrador and joined today by other continent leaders). It is time for a major turning point, to usher in a new stage in relations between the countries of America. And it’s going to be an example for the world, and (that) only President Biden can do, and so I’m not ruling out the possibility of that agreement being reached. It’s not that easy, of course,” he emphasized at his press conference in the National Palace this morning.
He indicated that Washington’s response to his approach is expected between today and tomorrow, and he does not want to advance if he has changed his position of not attending the summit, which will be held June 6-10 in Los Angeles becomes fall of the United States The United States insists on expelling the nations with which it has political disagreements (Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela).
The President said there was an atmosphere of respect in the conversation with Dodd, although the definitions of the eventual new order in the hemisphere were not easy.
“These are very complex issues as they involve changes in old policies going back more than two centuries and encouraged by the Cold War. But we must treat each other differently in America, in the world, putting aside confrontation and war, and seek friendly relations between peoples and prevent our peoples from suffering from the wrong decisions of politicians.“.
López Obrador claimed so Continental leaders have an obligation to act responsibly, because sometimes differences boil down to trivial matters. “Politicians or interest groups put them above everything, they elevate them to the highest level, and it generally has to do with the ideological, with the dogmatic, with fanaticism.”
He said that he told Senator Dodd yesterday that Cuba has no intention of invading the United States today, nor does its northern neighbors do so with Mexico, Cuba, or Guatemala; Chile also failed to declare war on Bolivia due to differing territorial boundaries.
“We can no longer make mistakes such as not investing enough time and betting on dialogue and politics in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, look at the damage done to innocent people by mistreatment by world political leaders will. Let’s put an end to this and let’s look for brotherly relationships. Let’s bet on a world where brotherhood and love prevail. What do we gain if we fight or say I don’t like you because you don’t think like me? Why discrimination, racism, classism? Do we want to go on saying in the speech that we don’t want racism, we don’t want classism, that we don’t want to discriminate against anyone, that we are free, that we are independent and sovereign, but actually demonstrate the opposite?
In this sense, he stressed that in the current situation it is extremely important that all the nations of the continent focus on reaching new agreements in their relations and setting an example to the world. “Let all of America set an example, I’m not even talking about José Martí de Nuestra América – an essay in which he refers to the unity and sovereignty of the Latin American peoples – I’m talking about the entire American continent. ”
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(With information from La Jornada)