“Mexico is respected”: AMLO when confirming the complaint against Ecuador before the ICJ

Mexico City. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador maintained that Mexico is an independent, free and sovereign country, “we are no one’s colony. I also say this because of the aggression against our sovereignty in Ecuador.” For this reason, he confirmed that our country will go to the International Court of Justice to denounce the raid on the Mexican embassy in that nation because “Mexico is respected.”

Later, he released images from inside the embassy where elements of the Ecuadorian police can be seen charging former president Jorge Glas and pushing aside the Mexican personnel, whom they subdue and in some cases, point a gun at. of fire Roberto Canseco to prevent resistance to the raid.

For López Obrador, this is not done by a government that “does not feel that it has the support of other governments or powers. That is why we are going to take this matter to Court.” Later, he reproached the ambiguity in the positions taken by the governments of the United States and Canada, our trading partners, regarding the outrage that occurred at the Mexican embassy in Ecuador.

-Are there powers supporting them?
-No, we are just going to have the International Court of Justice resolve, there were very ambiguous pronouncements regarding this grievance. In the case of the United States and Canada, we are economic trading partners, neighbors. His position was very indefinite, until now. His position has been very indefinite. In the case of Canada, they went so far as to say that it was an apparent irruption. We do not allow or accept that.

“We think that they want to maintain friendly relations like they have with us, with Ecuador despite an authoritarian attitude like the one we are seeing. We no longer want the Monroe doctrine to continue to be applied in America. We do not want that maxim to continue to be applied that this ruler is authoritarian, he is a so-and-so, but he is our so-and-so.

López Obrador said that in the case of the United States, it was a document, a bulletin from the State Department not condemning the interference, the assault, the invasion of our embassy. And talking about seeking reconciliation but without speaking out against this authoritarian act. Furthermore, President Biden has not done it like other leaders who have expressed themselves openly have done.

However, when asked if he expected the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, to comment on this act, he considered that they are free to do what they see fit.

The President maintained that this condemnation by Mexico of the raid on its embassy has to do with everything that is happening in the world. It is a bad sign going forward if it is not reported. It has to do with international law. If treaties and conventions such as the Vienna one and other agreements are not complied with, then there are no longer diplomatic rights, there is no respect for sovereignty, it is already the law of the strongest. It is double talk, I am in favor of freedom, of democracy but I tolerate authoritarianism, imposition, the predominance of oligarchies, subjugation for economic interests.”