Andrés Manuel López Obrador did not like to get involved in international politics. But in the last year he took a strong position on the political crisis in Peru.
The assault on the Mexican Embassy dynamited the relationship between the two countries. The Government of Daniel Noboa now faces a lawsuit in the International Court of Justice and a request for suspension from the UN. The brutal attack, massively condemned by the international community, put Latin American diplomacy in check, says Ruben Navarrette, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. The attack served as fuel for a president who dedicated his week to doing what he does best: political entertainment, he says, adding: “Not even [Augusto] Pinochet,. the fearsome Pinochet, and others, had dared to do that,” he launched on Monday. The Mexican Foreign Minister, Alicia Bárcena, a shark of Latin American diplomats, was in charge of defending the flag, he adds.