President Sheinbaum calls on US to ensure ‘fair trial’ for Maduro

President Sheinbaum connected Tuesday called connected the United States to warrant that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro receives a just proceedings successful New York, portion reiterating her content that the subject cognition that captured him successful Caracas connected Jan. 3 was amerciable and should ne'er person taken place.

“What we inquire for is simply a just trial; that’s what we indispensable demand, for everyone and nether immoderate circumstances, and successful this peculiar case, determination indispensable beryllium … justice,” she said.

President Sheinbaum points to the nonfiction successful the Constitution that establishes the Mexican overseas argumentation of respecting self-determination and nonintervention. (Galo Canas/Cuartoscuro)

Maduro, accused of cause trafficking, pleaded not blameworthy connected Monday successful his archetypal quality successful a national courtroom successful Brooklyn, New York, and claimed helium had been kidnapped astatine his location by U.S. subject personnel.

Speaking during her regular property league connected Tuesday morning, Sheinbaum again rebuked the U.S. subject operation and said Mexico is fiercely opposed to “a almighty federation forcibly removing (another country’s) president.”

“We tin ne'er hold with 1 state invading another, particularly extracurricular the model of the United Nations Charter, adjacent if helium were blameworthy of the charges against him,” she said, adding that “it’s a substance of the sovereignty of the Venezuelan people, conscionable arsenic it is for Mexico oregon immoderate different state successful the world.”

Sheinbaum besides addressed opponents of the Maduro regime.

“President Maduro’s presumption is precise absorbing (…) particularly considering each the propaganda against Venezuela oregon those who disagree with the Maduro authorities oregon Chavismo successful Venezuela … that’s 1 thing; but it is precise antithetic from being successful favour of an intervention,” Sheinbaum said. “That cannot beryllium approved, careless of one’s opinion.”

Chavismo is the left-wing populist governmental ideology, named aft erstwhile President Hugo Chávez, which Maduro has professed since taking implicit for Chávez successful 2013. It blends socialism, anti-imperialism and Bolivarianism to beforehand societal welfare, authorities power of cardinal industries (particularly oil) and greater Latin American integration.

Sheinbaum reiterated her content that the U.S. volition not intervene militarily successful Mexico, portion insisting that the U.S. “do more” to combat organized crime, particularly aft drugs scope groups successful the U.S. that distribute, merchantability and launder money. She besides criticized the U.S. for not earnestly addressing arms trafficking and not attending to the basal causes of cause usage among young Americans.

With reports from Reforma, El Economista and El Financiero