Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena reported this Friday that the government of her country, which in August asked Nicolás Maduro to hand over all the electoral records to prove his victory in the July elections, has taken a position of non-intervention in the crisis. Venezuelan.
“We believe that the international community should give Venezuelans the opportunity to make their own decisions with a certain sovereignty (…) We are a country whose principle is non-intervention, and respect for the sovereignty of other countries,” he argued. Bárcena at a press conference at the UN.
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico added that this crisis is a “national problem”, although it has also become an “international problem”, where they trust Venezuelan society to solve it because they are “a very capable and very well prepared community.” .
A month ago, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said that he did not recognize Chavismo’s self-proclaimed victory at the polls and asked Maduro to allow the Venezuelan Electoral Court to disseminate all the minutes, which pointed to the candidate’s triumph. opponent Edmundo González, now exiled in Spain.
On the other hand, Mexico also integrated, together with Brazil and Colombia, a tripartite pact, which the North American country already abandoned weeks ago, to try to promote a solution to the Venezuelan political crisis through three governments with a progressive ideological profile and closer to the chavismo.
“Brazil, Mexico and Colombia had joined together to pressure, not to pressure but to really ask for the publication of the minutes and results of the elections in Venezuela (…) The three countries, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, are in complete agreement on that this has to be a Venezuelan decision,” Bárcena argued.
Bárcena concluded that this is Mexico’s position “at the moment”, but that “it does not mean” that they stop being “interested” in the Venezuelan crisis, only that they trust in “non-intervention.”
In parallel with the UN High Level Week, a joint declaration on the situation in Venezuela was signed yesterday, which was promoted by the US and Argentina, and was joined by thirty international delegations, including Mexico was not found.
The document already pointed to the need to count on Chavismo for a peaceful and democratic transition of power in Venezuela, with guarantees for Maduro and the opposition.
Caracas / EFE
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2024-09-29 15:48:22
