The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, reported this Thursday that he will avoid appearing in photographs with the president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC, in English) next week in the United States.
“I hope I don’t have to take a photo, I don’t want it, I tell you this with all my love, with my good faith, I don’t want to take a photo with the president of Peru, I’m not going to go look for her to take a photo”, expressed López Obrador in his morning press conference.
The Mexican president will travel to San Francisco on Thursday and Friday of next week to participate in the APEC meeting and seek a meeting with the US president, Joe Biden, to address the current migratory wave in the region.
López Obrador had canceled his attendance in September due to the presence of Boluarte, whom he considers a president.spurious” after the dismissal last December of the then president Pedro Castillo, but in October he rectified at the “insistence,” according to him, from the White House.
Even so, he reiterated his criticism of Peru after the expulsion in December 2022 of the Mexican ambassador in Lima, Pablo Monroy, for the “interference in internal affairs” given the support of the Mexican Government for Castillo and his family, now asylum in the country.
“Relations were not broken, however, the treatment given to our ambassador was rude, humiliating”said López Obrador.
The Mexican president has generated tensions months ago in international forums due to his disagreements with Boluarte, such as his refusal to give him the temporary presidency of the Pacific Alliance, which is also made up of Chile and Colombia.
López Obrador’s participation in the APEC forum represents only his seventh trip abroad after almost five years in office, during which he has visited the United States four times, a tour of Central America and Cuba once, and another of South America, which included Chile and Colombia in September.
Source: Gestion
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