President of Mexico, absent from the APEC summit “because we do not have relations with Peru”

The Mexican president said Thursday that he is considering traveling to Washington in November to meet with his United States counterpart, after announcing that he has ruled out attending a summit of leaders of the Asia-Pacific region in San Francisco that month, where they were going to have a meeting

In August, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLOhad announced that he was going to hold a bilateral meeting with Joe Biden within the framework of his participation in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum meeting (APEC) in the Californian city.

“I’m not going to attend the San Francisco (summit) because We do not have relations with Peru and it is to see about the Asia-Pacific, and we do not want to participate in thatrespectfully“said the Mexican president in his daily press conference.

Diplomatic ties with the Andean nation deteriorated when AMLO In February, he refused to transfer the pro tempore presidency of the Pacific Alliance to Lima, in response to the dismissal in December of the Peruvian ruler Pedro Castillo, replaced by Dina Boluarte.

Peru expelled the Mexican ambassador in the country and withdrew its ambassador in Mexico, and the Peruvian Congress declared the Mexican president “persona non grata.” All these measures took place before López Obrador reported his bilateral meeting with Biden at APEC, now canceled.

AMLO He said on Thursday that in Washington he could talk with Biden about migration, drug trafficking, violence and trade. He added that, if the trip did not materialize, he invited his counterpart to Mexico as an alternative to learn about various energy and infrastructure projects, although he did not mention dates.

Among them is a natural gas liquefaction plant with a million-dollar investment from the American company New Fortress Energyin Altamira, in the northern state of Tamaulipas, Gulf of Mexico, as well as an important railway-tourist project, the Mayan Trainin the southeast of the country.

As a third option, AMLO He indicated that he would meet with Biden at the next North American leaders’ summit, expected in January in Canada.