AMLO looks more and more to South America and stands as Castillo’s protector

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador it crosses borders to the south, thus abandoning its traditional territory of influence, between Central America and the Caribbean, territories where Mexico has always exercised as the country with the greatest political and diplomatic weight. And he does so after having sponsored a president as controversial as Pedro Castillo, whom the Mexican president has reiterated is one more victim of racism in America.

After having offered asylum in 2019 to Evo MoralesNow he is also willing to grant it to a coup leader stained from top to bottom by corruption. And only a few hours after having shown his full support for Cristina Fernandez Kirchner despite the official doctrine of non-intervention Mexican diplomacy, to which the former foreign minister Genaro Estrada Félix gives his name.

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It is a fundamental principle of our foreign policy. non-intervention and self-determination of the peoples. That is what we stick to in the case of what happened in Peru,” added the Aztec president. after having fired almost all his dialectical cannons in defense of his ally Castillo. A staunch defense of the “regrettable” attitude of the “economic and political elites” and their “confrontation and hostility” that pushed Castillo “to make decisions that have helped his adversaries to consummate his removal.”

López Obrador launched the call and a good part of the leaders of the Patria Grande joined his defense, with the exception, once again, of the Chilean gabriel boric. from the colombian Gustavo Petro to Venezuelan Nicolás Madurowho delved into the script of those who want to establish themselves as the head of the Great Homeland: “All the circumstances that we have seen are the oligarchic elites that do not allow a simple teacher to reach the Presidency of Peru and try to govern for the people” .

The Mexican president even took from the old drawer of the Latin American left the concept of “soft coup”, which according to his criteria would have been applied to the teacher from Cajamarca and which has served him to whip up his internal opposition: “Here they have not been able to and will not be able to, our people are very smart. The revolution of consciences has given very good results”. López Obrador ironized (“Oh, how scary, I’m trembling”) about the hashtag #SiguesTuAMLO.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador arrives at the capital’s main square, the Zócalo, during a march in support of his administration, in Mexico City. (AP/ Marco Ugarte/)

“We are facing a selective invocation of the Estrada doctrine. Mexican non-interventionism has always been selective, and that selectivity is sharpened by López Obrador. During the Cold War, the Sandinista guerrilla was helped, relations with Francoism and the South American dictatorships were suspended, exiles were received… The Mexican position was always favorable to left-wing movements and governments, while maintaining the alliance with the United States. But this becomes much clearer now in Latin America,” the historian Armando Chaguaceda explained to LA NACIÓN.

for now Mexico has not recognized the new president, Dina Boluarte, and also reversed his imposition of holding the summit of the Pacific Alliance in Lima. Castillo’s successor leftist militant but considered a traitor by the imprisoned leader’s supporters and for the Marxist-Leninist Perú Libre (PL) party, he assured on Thursday that he “waits with open arms” for López Obrador.

Castillo, Morales, Vladimir Putin, Maduro, Daniel Ortega, Kirchner, Donald Trump, even the Cuban Miguel Díaz-Canel, one of the favorite guests of the Mexican president. López Obrador has supported all of them in different circumstances.

“His position is consistent with his vision of politics, focused on great figures, on imperial presidencies, of a populist type, who embodies the nation. Any interruption of their mandates is a symptom of destabilization. That is the logic that he had in front of Morales, in front of Correa after the corruption cases and it is the same logic that he maintains with Castillo. It is a classically populist vision and in this vision the leading president embodies the will of the nation before which no brake, counterbalance or impeachment process, even if it is contemplated by law, even caused by an authoritarian act, can be supported, ”he details. Chaguaceda.

An attitude that also contrasts with that expressed by the Mexican Foreign Ministry, much more diplomatic and pragmatic, headed by Marcelo Ebrard. “This shows that in the Mexican state there is a kind of two-faced eagle, with Ebrard representing diplomacy, even at the United Nations with a very clear position on the Russian invasion, condemnation included. And then there is the other position, the ideological one, embodied by the president, which includes simpleton anti-Americanism, defense of populist leadership, even sympathy for Trump, and rejection of anything that appears to be elements of liberal democracy, such as surrender of accounts, the rule of law, the use of justice and checks and balances”, says the historian and political scientist Chaguaceda.

By Daniel Lozano

Source: Elcomercio