The Cuban Presidency highlights that Díaz-Canel is visiting Mexico for the fifth time since 2018

Madrid/Miguel Díaz-Canel was this Sunday the first president to arrive in Mexico for the inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum, which will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, October 1, four months after the successor of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, one of her closest allies Cuban regime, as evidenced by Pemex oil shipments to the Island and substantial contracts to send doctors to the most remote and dangerous areas of the neighboring country.

The Cuban leader landed at the Felipe Ángeles International Airport, where he was received with honors by the military guard and a non-joke figure: David Kershenobich, future Minister of Health in the Sheinbaum administration. Less than a week has passed since it became known that Cuba received more than 23 million euros for three contracts from the Social Security Institute and the company Cuban Services Marketing between July 2022 and December 2023, in addition to the announcement that health workers of the island will continue to come with the new government.

Díaz-Canel is accompanied by a delegation that includes his wife, Lis Cuesta, as well as Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla. the head of the Department of International Relations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Emilio Lozada García. and the general manager of Latin America and the Caribbean, Eugenio Martínez Enríquez. The delegation is completed by the ambassador to Mexico, Marcos Rodríguez.

In a note published by the Cuban Presidency, it is emphasized that “it is the fifth time that the head of state has visited Mexico since assuming the presidency of the island in 2018, which indicates the close relationship that has been maintained during all these years with the outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador”.

Shortly after the arrival of Diaz-Canel, that of Luis Inacio took place Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil, while that of Colombia’s Gustavo Petro was postponed until today, Monday, after the helicopter crash in which eight members of the Air Force lost their lives. “I want to accompany the families in their pain and continue the investigation personally to determine the causes of the incident,” Petros said in announcing the delay. Both leaders are expected to meet with Sheinbaum this Monday to discuss the possibility of continuing joint mediation by Brazil, Colombia and Mexico that will promote a dialogue between Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the opposition. which requires the victory of his candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, with 70% of the vote in the elections held on July 28.

Díaz-Canel will have a meeting agenda this Monday, which is not detailed, except for a meeting with “members of the Cuban state mission.” However, the the official press emphasizes exchange in education, culture, sports, heritage and environmental conservation, as well as Health, with special emphasis not only on staff contracts, but also on those of Medical students. No mention is made, however, of the – supposedly free – fuel shipments, nor of the aborted Mayan Train deal, in which Mexico aspired to import 200,000 tons of stone from the island that ended up with just 7,000, not counting the human and environmental damage of López Obrador’s protagonist.

Mexico aspired to import 200,000 tons of stone from the Island, which ended up with only 7,000, without considering the human and environmental damage of López Obrador’s urban project.

It was there, at the inauguration of the Chetumal station, that the president-elect participated this Sunday in her last official act before the inauguration. “I’m ready, I’m strong. “The people of Mexico are ready to begin the second stage of the ‘fourth transformation,'” Sheinbaum said, referring to the term by which the ruling party’s political plan is known.

“In these months, I have seen how beautiful it is to see a president merge with his people and how exciting it is to see a people merge with their president,” he emphasized at the end of his so-called “transition tour.” ”

“I don’t need to flatter you, but it makes me proud to say that you are one of the greats and that for millions of Mexicans you are the best president our country has ever had,” Sheinbaum said of his predecessor, before praising their achievements: ” a new economic model, the foundations of a new justice, the foundations of a new thought,” and “a politicized and happy people,” among others.

“The Mayan train in the face of all adversity is a reality,” Sheinbaum celebrated, and said that, contrary to criticism, “the train meant the decree of the largest eco-jungle reserve after the Amazon.”

López Obrador, who emphasized the Armed Forces’ role in infrastructure, quipped that his inauguration would likely mean a holiday for the military. “Don’t believe me too much because the new president is very hardworking and surely already has it in his mind that they are going to build the northern trains,” he said.

The Mexican president’s flagship project includes 1,554 kilometers with seven sections crossing five states and 36 municipalities and has a total of 34 stations. Sheinbaum announced in July the creation of two new passenger train lines, one from Mexico City to Guadalajara and the other to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, on the border with the United States, what he described as a “Mayan train northwards. ”

Hundreds of immigrants and refugees asked him this Sunday for protection from the violence they are suffering

The new president must, however, look primarily at her borders. There, hundreds of immigrants and refugees asked him this Sunday for protection from the violence they are suffering.

During a procession with agents of the pastoral human mobility of the Catholic Church, those attending the 110th World Day of Migrants and Refugees in Tapachula, Chiapas state, called on the Mexican government to provide free and safe passage for them to move to the border with United States.

Evelin Leonel Villanueva, from Honduras, asked Sheinbaum for support to speed up appointments with the Mexican Commission for Assistance to Refugees (Comar), as she said there is a delay of about six months.

“We feel unsafe, but at the same time safe with the Mexicans who help us, who can give us free border crossing and who provide us transportation for low-income people and it’s difficult for us to get to the border with guard so that I can get to the family,” he noted.