Jorge Ricardo/ Reform Agency
Sunday, January 08, 2023 | 13:12
CDMX.- The PAN and the PRD considered that at the Summit of North American Leaders, Mexico should correct its immigration, trade, energy, crime-fighting, and support for undemocratic governments policies.
The meeting that begins this Monday in Mexico between the local President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has to make the Mexican government reconsider, considered the national leaders of the PAN, Marko Cortés, and from the PRD, Jesús Zambrano.
“The President must correct his seventies positions and his bad decisions that have caused Mexico problems that will undoubtedly be reflected in this Summit, such as the uncertainty in investments in energy matters and all the environmental policy of this Government that is going backwards,” the baker said.
Separately, they referred to the Mexican energy policy that has led Canada and the United States to request controversy panels for alleged violation of the Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC).
“His seventies ideas generate uncertainty and scare away jobs, opening up trilateral trade fronts for the country, such as the energy controversy in the T-MEC,” the PAN member said in a statement.
Zambrano said that López Obrador has been very docile on the immigration issue by accepting that thousands of migrants are sent from the United States to Mexico to await the resolution of their legal processes.
“We should not accept the US backyard treaty,” the PRD leader said by telephone.
The two considered that Mexico should recover collaboration with US agencies and attributed the capture of Ovidio Guzmán, son of “El Chapo”, to Biden’s arrival in Mexico.
“I wish Biden would come more often so that more bosses would be arrested,” said Zambrano, for whom the capture of the boss with the support of a helicopter gunship was the demonstration that the policy of “hugs, not bullets” is only a slogan.
“López Obrador must offer his counterparts guarantees of a security strategy that complies with international standards, where cooperation in this matter is essential to achieve the arrest of drug trafficking leaders, mainly in Mexico and the United States,” Cortés added.
Cortés and Zambrano also considered that the Mexican government should take advantage of the three-day summit to correct its foreign policy, which has supported undemocratic governments such as Cuba or Venezuela and has accused the United States of being behind the removal of former Peruvian President Pedro Castle.
“López Obrador must understand what it means to support undemocratic governments in Latin America and carefully measure the repercussions that it will have, because it is one thing to show solidarity and another to get involved in the internal affairs of another country like Peru and suggest that the United States was behind the removal,” Zambrano noted.
“National Action calls on López Obrador to act as Mexico’s representative at the North American Leaders Summit and stop supporting undemocratic governments,” Cortés stressed.
