AMLO: “we will not remain silent in the face of authoritarian acts; the country is respected”

Mexico City. When broadcasting a new video of the invasion of Ecuador’s security forces into the Mexican embassy in Quito, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador maintained that our country cannot remain silent in the face of these authoritarian acts, because Mexico is respected. In parallel, he questioned the ambiguity in “the positions of the United States and Canada, regarding this violation of Mexican sovereignty and international law.

We are economic partners, commercial partners, neighbors and until now their position has been very undefined. Canada went so far as to say that it was an alleged rape, an apparent rape. And from the United States it was a bulletin from the State Department, not condemning the assault, the invasion of our embassyLópez Obrador expressed his disagreement.

He considered that the attack on our embassy was not carried out by a government that does not feel it has the support of other governments or powers. For this reason, he said that the legal actions that Mexico will take at the international level to denounce this fact are ongoing, especially the complaint that will be filed in the International Court of Justice.

Annoyed by the attitude of the United States and Canada, he added that Mexico does not want to return to the application of the Monroe Doctrine in the region, “we do not want to continue applying that maxim that ‘this authoritarian ruler is a so-and-so, but it is ours this way.”

–Are there powers that support President Noboa?

–No, nothing more than we are going to have the International Court resolve.

Later he was insisted on.

–What are Canada and the United States obliged to do, being Mexico’s main partners?

–To speak openly. And if they don’t, there is no problem, our relations will continue, but we cannot let an issue like this pass, we cannot remain silent, it would be faint-hearted if, faced with such an outrage, we remained silent and did not inform the people of Mexico the behavior, the attitude of other peoples and other governments.

He vindicated the legal and diplomatic route that Mexico will follow in its dispute with Ecuador because We are Juaristas, nothing by force, everything by reason and law. This for the Ecuadorian brothers, who are our brothers, so that there is nothing to fear. And as we always say: We are not equal, we are not authoritarian, we are not fascists, we do not think that problems can be solved with the use of force..

In this case, he considered the assault on the Mexican diplomatic mission unjustifiable because it is a violation of our sovereignty, the right to asylum and the protection that all embassies in the world must have. No precedent can be set and, he added, no pretext can be used to violate all these international norms, alluding to Ecuadorian considerations that Jorge Glas faces legal proceedings in his country.

If the rules, the Vienna Convention and other agreements are not followed, there is no longer diplomatic right or respect for the sovereignty of embassies, it is the law of the strongest, it is the double discourse of defending freedom but tolerating authoritarianism, he asserted. .