President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) reported this Monday that he met with a group of congressmen from the United States, from the Democratic and Republican parties.
“We received a visit from US legislators from the Democratic and Republican parties at the National Palace,” he said in a message on social media.
“We agree that we must maintain the policy of cooperation and good neighborliness that has been beneficial to our peoples and nations,” he added.
The meeting, which lasted almost three hours, was also attended by the United States ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, and the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Alicia Bárcena.
“We discussed everything. The president (López Obrador) gave them a complete overview of what he has done, what is being done, and the very good relationship we have with the United States,” Bárcena told the media when questioned following leaving the meeting.
This Monday, at his daily press conference, AMLO referred to the attack suffered by former US President Donald Trump.
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Trump, the Republican candidate for the White House in the November elections, was slightly injured in one ear in an attack that took place during a rally last Saturday in Butler (Pennsylvania), where two people died, a member of the public and the attacker, Thomas Matthew, a 20-year-old who was shot dead by security forces.
Asked at his daily press conference whether the attack would have repercussions in Mexico, AMLO said “no,” because “fortunately, former President Trump was not assassinated.”
“Perhaps it would have affected us, it would have generated a lot of uncertainty in the United States and in the world, because it is something terrifying and has a lot of impact,” he said.
Trump was carried off the stage on foot, but with traces of blood on his right ear.
The assassination attempt has further united Republicans around Trump, whom many in the party consider a hero for his quick reaction following surviving the shooting, since, as the Secret Service evacuated him, he raised his fist in victory, in an image that will go down in history.
AMLO was one of the first leaders to condemn the attack on Trump with a message on his social networks a few minutes following the news broke last Saturday: “In any case, we condemn what happened to former President Donald Trump. The violence is irrational and inhumane.”
With information from EFE
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