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(CNN Spanish) - The president of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico, Arturo Zaldívar, demanded this Thursday - through his Twitter account - that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador be respected.
In the first of three trills, Zaldívar says that “when the head of the Mexican State is attacked and insulted, all and all Mexicans must be united. To the outside there is no division worth. My personal solidarity with the president ”.
In his message, he asks that “Bolivia raise the level of the debate and seek a solution according to international law, instead of launching disqualifications”.
- Look: Tension between Bolivia and Mexico: this is the position of the two countries
Earlier, the former president of Bolivia, Jorge Quiroga, offered a press conference from Cochabamba in which he delivered an energetic message against Mexican President López Obrador.
"What a shame, López Obrador," Quiroga said. “You president of Mexico, older brother country, you should have dignity, you should have respect, you should help recover democracy in Venezuela and Bolivia. And now you are so submissive to the gringos, so kneeling before the Cubans and so bully before Bolivia thinking that we are little and you can trample us. You will not be able to. You will not be able and you went from cynical and scoundrel. And we know that you suddenly do not even know where Bolivia is, but your Foreign Minister Ebrard, who wants to make friends with the Communists, who is there in his premature campaign when five years are missing, is doing this. We know who the fight is with. There they will find us. ”
Friends of #Mexico: ask @lopezobrador_ to stand up to Trump, because he lives on his knees; and ask him why he abusively wants us to prosecute in @CIJ_ICJ, for providing the security that his government asked THREE times to #Bolivia on November 15/19/29. pic.twitter.com/SBzISoO0bO
- Tuto Quiroga (@tutoquiroga) December 27, 2019
In his message, the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico, Arturo Zaldívar, makes no direct reference to this press conference or Quiroga's comments, but his tweet was published minutes after several Mexican newspapers published the controversial statements of the Bolivian exmandatario.
The foreign minister of the interim government of Jeanine Áñez, Karen Longaric, said Thursday on Twitter that her country wants “friendly relations with Mexico based on non-interference in internal affairs” and asked the Government of Mexico to “respect the Bolivian people and their democratic process".
In a statement, the Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that bilateral relations with Mexico "deteriorated from the moment the Mexican government helped former President Evo Morales to misrepresent the reality of the struggle and will of the Bolivian people."
Bolivia expressed its "concern" about the alleged interference of Mexico in the internal affairs of the country and called for a "constructive dialogue" to have "friendly relations with Mexico", as long as these are based on respect for Bolivia's sovereignty for, says the statement, "recover their full democracy through free and transparent elections."