Mexican President won't attend US-hosted Summit of the Americas due to exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela
Mexican President won't attend US-hosted Summit of the Americas due to exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela
remember when folks used to call amlo "mexico's bernie sanders"
dont here that so much anymore, someone should check in on those folks
This guy consistently finds the worst position to take, its actually impressive
The shocking part is that he is pretty popular. If you thought Magats were bad, just take a look at Latin American politics.
Just to clarify Mexico will be attending, but the representative will be the Secretary of Foreign Affairs. This is probably a win-win. It looks bad for Mexico right now but having AMLO there would probably end up looking worse. And the rest of the leaders of state win by not having AMLO there.
Someone can correct me if I'm totally off here, but I'm not seeing how AMLO's party (Moreno) is really much different at all than the previous one-party authoritarian state under PRI.
How does Mexico break out of their cycle of uncompetitive elections mired in corruption, bribes and disinformation?
Will get a lot of downvotes for this, I don't like MORENA or AMLO but tbh it's probably one of the least corrupt parties. Like people point out that one time where he let out El Chapo's Son, but really I'd rather have El Chapo's son on the loose than the Sinaloa Cartel killing the inhabitents of Culiacan. Thank god the military doesn't engage with cartels anymore because when that shit was happening Mexico was super violent. If you got caught in the middle of a shootout you were probably dead. That's why cities like Acapulco have become so dangerous, it's not that the cartels kill people for fun, it's just that when the bullets start flying, you don't want to be in the middle of it.
I'll say this again, I don't like AMLO, but his strategy with the cartel is pragmatic, he doesn't want innocent Mexicans to get killed over drug trafficing.
lol this guy is going to look like such a bum when the sanctions cause the cuban government to collapse. admittedly we've been doing this for 70 years but i really feel like it's going to happen any second now.
US-interests predicting that our foreign policy will have the desired effect "any day now" is definitely peak US-centrism.
Their cigars are too good. If they ended the embargo I’d literally die from cancer.
Maybe I know nothing, but what would be wrong with attempting to normalize relations with those countries? The embargo on Cuba has pretty much been a failure. Oil prices are extremely high. What would be so awful about engaging Venezuela now? They aren’t much worse than any of the million other authoritarian regimes we look the other way for.
Cuba is dangerous. The embargo has been very successful. Cuba has very little money and clout now.
Cuba is still a dictatorship and as evidenced by China, giving them access to out markets will only strengthen said regime. Same is true for Venezuela, however in the latters case, no oil company is stupid enough to engage with them.
The US should lead the way in abolishing presidential systems of government in the western hemisphere
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