Foreign policy is also a letter of introduction to the world.
President López Obrador has conditioned his presence at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in exchange for President Biden inviting three dictators.
In his attempt to generate empathy with Maduro, Ortega and Díaz-Canel, the Mexican president deforms his own political traits and defrauds millions of citizens who do not believe in or want dictatorships.
The gestures of the president, in his attempt to move the floor of the White House, recall the period of protests against the signing of the Free Trade Agreement in the early 1990s. Many said that the tacos de pastor would come into risk zone when competing against hamburgers. Years later, Fidel Castro would dedicate a few words about the affinity of Mexican education with the characters of Walt Disney.
The Cuban revolution was planted by Fidel Castro on moral grounds in his attempt to overcome the bitter asymmetries.
The dignity of Cubans to live equally represented a model close to communism.
The important thing was to live in the antipodes of the capitalist model.
However, not all lived the same.
Fidel Castro plunged into the waters of his private island, Cayo Piedra. The island’s treasure is the fabulous seabed. Completely protected from tourism and fishing, the waters that surround the island constitute an ecological sanctuary.
“At the foot of his house, Fidel Castro has a personal aquarium with an area that exceeds two hundred square meters. An underwater playground whose existence is ignored by millions of Cubans and millions of tourists (…), writes Juan Reinaldo Sánchez in The Hidden Life of Fidel Castro (Paidós cultural editions, 2021).
Juan Reinaldo Sánchez served as a member of Fidel Castro’s security for several years. He writes that only two of Fidel’s friends regularly visited his house in Cayo Piedra: Gabriel García Márquez and Antonio Núñez Jiménez. The latter, historical character of the revolution.
A simple example of what Cubans could not enjoy. Fidel had twenty real estate properties starting with Punto Cero, his huge property in Havana, close to the embassy neighborhood; La Caleta del Rosario, in the Bay of Pigs, and La Esperada, a house in the heart of a swampy area in the province of Pinar del Río, among others.
Fidel used his yacht Aquarama II to get around Cayo Piedra.
There is nothing wrong with having several properties, as long as a discourse of Franciscan humility is not sold.
Fidel found two powerful tools to maintain his dictatorship: words and weapons. But his strategy for success was to articulate an anti-Yankee discourse that today permeates various demographic layers of Latin America.
Mimicry assaults intelligence. Maduro and Ortega are two in love with Castroism. Their obsession with remaining in power is achieved at gunpoint and by stealing freedom from several generations.
It is unfortunate that President López Obrador tries to shelter the dictators in order to show the White House that he is not a “lackey”.
That demonstration ignores the torture, crimes, imprisonment and repression of dictators.
The complicit silence of the members of the Mexican Foreign Service (SEM) is also unfortunate. Not a single resignation. Not a single voice calling for sanity.
AMLO has made his foreign policy the worst presentation of the country to the world. The revolution of disappointment.
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He was a research professor in the Department of International Studies at ITAM, published the book Referendum Twitter and was an editor and collaborator in various newspapers such as 24 Horas, El Universal, Milenio. He has published in magazines such as Foreign Affairs, Le Monde Diplomatique, Life & Style, Chilango and Revuelta. He is currently an editor and columnist at El Economista.