Group of exiled Venezuelans declares López Obrador persona non grata

The Group of Politically Persecuted Venezuelans in Exile (Veppex) declared the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “persona non grata” this Saturday “for his help and recognition of the dictators Nicolás Maduro and Miguel Díaz-Canel.”

In an announcement, the group alluded to the reception that the Mexican president has given to the presidents of Venezuela and Cuba, Nicolás Maduro and Miguel Díaz-Canel, respectively, who this Saturday have been a part of the VI summit of the Group of Latin American States and Caribbean (Celac) celebrated in Mexico Metropolis.

“It’s uncommon {that a} democratically elected president receives with honors a assassin like Miguel Díaz-Canel, who has continued the tyranny of the brothers (Fidel and Raúl) Castro on the island of Cuba,” stated the president of Veppex, José Antonio Hill.

The top of the group additionally criticized that López Obrador “receives Nicolás Maduro, who’s accused of drug trafficking by North American justice and has a reward of 15 million {dollars} for his seize.”

President López Obrador’s gesture, Colina continued, “displays how unfavorable and adverse” it’s for the Venezuelan opposition to keep up a dialogue in Mexican territory with the ruling occasion.

Right now’s Celac assembly was marked by the criticism that some leaders made for the participation of Maduro within the summit, who on Friday traveled abruptly to Mexico to take part within the occasion.

The Uruguayan president, Luis Lacalle, for instance, immediately questioned Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and stated that one couldn’t be complacent “when there isn’t any full democracy, separation of powers and the State equipment is used to repress dissidents and imprison to the opponents.

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