Mexico's President Would Build an Alliance to Counter Cuba Blockade
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
BY W. T. WHITNEY
On the occasion of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canels visit recently to Mexico, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) raised the possibility of many nations cooperating to oppose the U.S blockade of Cuba. AMLO has become Cubas champion in the international arena, and perhaps not accidentally: the governments of the two nations each originated from social and political revolutions.
The two leaders have built a tight relationship. Diaz-Canal visited to Mexico in September, 2021. AMLO was in Cuba in May, 2022. And AMLO refused to attend a U.S organized Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in June 2022 because Cuba had been excluded.
Accompanied by Cuban government officials, Díaz-Canel on February 11 joined AMLO in the Mexican state of Campeche. That Cuban medical teams are working there now may have helped determine the meetings location.
In remarks at a medical center, AMLO lauded Cubas medical solidarity and described own peoples unmet social needs. He called upon the U.S. government to end its blockade of Cuba:
[Cuba] has our respect, our gratitude, our support, and we are going to continue demanding the removal, the elimination of the blockade against Cuba, which is inhumane. And theres more than voting in the United Nations where the anti-blockade resolution is always approved overwhelmingly, and then its back to the way it was.
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