Sheinbaum: ‘Intervention does not bring democracy to the people’

While insisting that Mexico’s narration with the United States is “one of cooperation, not subordination,” President Claudia Sheinbaum again condemned U.S. subject intervention successful Venezuela connected Monday.

“Intervention does not bring ideology to the people,” she said, adding that equipped intrusions neither make stableness nor payment the wide payment of the public. “Only the radical tin physique their ain future.”

Reading a prepared statement, Sheinbaum said Mexico maintains a humanities presumption based connected non-intervention and the self-determination of peoples, principles enshrined some successful its Constitution and successful planetary law.

“Mexico’s presumption against immoderate signifier of involution is firm, wide and historic,” she said. “Mexico reaffirms a rule that is not new: we categorically cull involution successful the interior affairs of different countries.”

Sheinbaum concluded by saying that, fixed the escalating tensions betwixt the U.S. and Venezuela, multilateral organizations, including the U.N. and the Organization of American States, indispensable play an progressive role.

Addressing Trump’s allegations that “the cartels are moving Mexico — she’s not moving Mexico,” Sheinbaum laughed disconnected the accusation and described the bilateral narration arsenic 1 of communal respect.

“It is important to stress that erstwhile we speech astir shared responsibility, respect and communal trust, this unit that our state is experiencing has among its causes the amerciable introduction of high-powered weapons from the United States into Mexico, arsenic good arsenic the superior occupation of cause usage successful the neighboring country,” she said.

Sheinbaum condemns US subject involution successful Venezuela; Trump says ‘something’s going to person to beryllium done with Mexico’

Sheinbaum besides revealed she held talks with her counterparts from Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and Spain, Pedro Sánchez, implicit the weekend, a dialog that resulted successful a associated connection rejecting the U.S. involution and calling for a peaceful solution.

“We don’t judge improvement comes from the spot oregon imaginativeness of a azygous state, but from practice among each the countries of the continent,” she said. “This would springiness tremendous economical spot to Latin America and the full American continent.”

Sheinbaum acknowledged that Venezuela’s lipid reserves apt played a relation successful the U.S. actions, adding that different strategical resources, specified arsenic uranium, could beryllium astatine the halfway of U.S. interest.

The president besides disclosed that a telephone speech with Trump is not presently planned.

With reports from Animal Político, El Financiero and El Universal