President Claudia Sheinbaum has once again distanced herself when it comes to giving her opinion on the pressure that her American counterpart Donald Trump is exerting on Venezuela. The president indicated on Tuesday that she had not received the letter that Nicolás Maduro had said she would send to all heads of state in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as to United Nations (UN) countries, to warn of “an extremely serious escalation of aggression by the US government” and, in doing so, to call for a tougher stance.
Asked about Mexico’s position on Maduro’s call, the president resorted to the same speech. “Our foreign policy is a policy of non-intervention, non-interference and peaceful resolution of conflicts; this has always been our position and we will defend it,” he said during the morning conference. However, he announced that Mexico’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Héctor Vasconcelos, would establish Mexico’s position at the Security Council of the international organization which will be held this Tuesday in New York.
The Venezuelan president said the Trump administration’s actions in Venezuela threaten to destabilize the entire region and the international system as a whole. It is for this reason that he called on world governments to strongly condemn the acts of aggression, piracy and extrajudicial killings committed by the United States, and demanded the immediate cessation of military deployment, blockade and armed attacks in the Caribbean. “There will be a meeting of the United Nations Security Council; our ambassador to the UN, Héctor Vasconcelos, will participate very firmly in what Mexico thinks,” concluded the Mexican president.
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