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AMLO suggests a "pause" in Mexico's relationship with Spain

2022-02-10T00:46:37.904Z


President López Obrador said that Spanish companies were benefiting from policies that favored private interests.


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(CNN) --

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday suggested a "pause" in relations with Spain until a new government arrives amid strained ties with the former colonial power.

During his daily press conference, López Obrador said “I would like us to postpone normalization to give ourselves a break that I think is good for us Mexicans and Spaniards.”

President López Obrador said that Spanish companies were benefiting from policies that favored private interests.

“It is better that they give us a time, a pause.

And maybe when the government changes, relations will be restored, and I would like the relationship not to be like before, ”she said from Mexico City.

López Obrador added that the pause would be to respect us, "so that they do not see us as a land of conquest. We want to have good relations with all the governments, with all the people of the world, but we do not want them to steal from us."

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During the press conference at the National Palace, the executive president of Pemex, Octavio Romero Oropeza, representing the president, described a chronology of the "abusive" relations that Mexico has had with Spanish companies.

Mexico's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request about AMLO's suggestion.

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Spain's response

Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said on Wednesday that he had recently learned of the statement about a "pause" by the Mexican president, but that Spain had not been officially notified of anything by Mexico.

Albares made a short audio-recorded statement to all media in Lyon, France, on Wednesday night, where he was attending a European Union summit of foreign and health ministers.

Albares said: "We would have to ask President López Obrador what he meant by that and what is the official meaning of those statements."

Albares went on to "express surprise" at the statement because he said that it is in "contradiction" with what President López Obrador said and with the "cordial" meeting that Albares had with Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, recently in Honduras, in the that the Minister of Foreign Affairs "publicly greeted relations with Spain".

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“What I want to say is that the relationship between Spain and Mexico is a strategic relationship that goes beyond verbal declarations or specific words.

And I also want to make it clear that the Spanish government has not taken any action that could justify a declaration of this kind,” added Albares.

He also stated that trade relations between Spain and Mexico, "far from being on pause, we are talking about an increase in our trade relations", and added that "investment flows, in both directions, are increasing".

And he added: "In any case, what the Spanish government always does is defend the interests of Spain, in any circumstance, and against any country."

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Source: cnnespanol

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