Mexico City – President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday offered his help to the Government of Cuba in the face of protests against its current administration.
In that sense, the president said that if necessary, he would offer humanitarian support “without any political tendency or bias.”
“Mexico could help with medicines, with vaccines, with food, with whatever is required, because health and nutrition are fundamental human rights,” he said during his morning press conference.
The protests erupted amid Cuba’s worst economic crisis since the fall of former ally the Soviet Union in the 1990s and a surge in coronavirus cases, with people angry over goods shortages, curbs on civil liberties and the handling of the pandemic.
The Mexican President remarked that to support the island, the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba must be “suspended”. In addition, he indicated that he will ask Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard to establish a communication bridge between the two nations.
Meanwhile, he repeatedly called on the governments of other countries not to intervene in order to respect the self-determination of the Cuban people.
“Let them be the ones to deal with their affairs in a peaceful way, but let there be no interventionism,” Lopez Obrador added.
Sources: Vallarta Independiente, Reuters
