Venezuelan diaspora sees with concern changes in Mexico’s approach to the Maduro regime

Representatives of the Venezuelan diaspora expressed that the state of the government of Mexico is the one that indicates that it would promote “non-intervention” in Venezuela, which could weaken the efforts of the international community to help the South American country to rescue its democracy.

“We are concerned and we are acting in Mexico, through open spaces, to try to keep the royal line (Mexico’s support to Venezuelans who oppose the Chavez regime),” said the president of the organization Venamérica, Luis Corona, based in Miami, in an interview with the Nuevo Herald.

What is shaping up as a change in Mexican foreign policy with the new government of Mexico’s president-elect, the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), was announced by Marcelo Ebrard proposed for the foreign ministry of that country and whose appointment must be ratified by the Senate.

Ebrard said in an interview with Radio Fórmula that he has a policy of “non-intervention” in external affairs.

With respect to Venezuela, he emphasized “we are going to be respectful of non-intervention, this does not mean that we are not worried about the situation in other countries, we will see how we design or how we can contribute in the best way”.

Mexico, under the government of outgoing President Enrique Peña Nieto, has had an active participation in the framework of the so-called Grupo de Lima in the search for a regional solution to the political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.

The member countries of the Lima Group met last May in Mexico to analyze the questions in the presidential elections in which Governor Nicolás Maduro resulted in the coup and Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray gave the joint statement condemning the “authoritarian regime” “From Venezuela.

That position was praised by Venamérica in a letter sent to Peña Nieto last Friday.

“His determined policy in international organizations to claim the concepts and practice of human rights and freedom, within the framework of the Constitution, laws and international treaties, have been an example of what should be the relations between peoples” said the organization that brings together Venezuelans in the diaspora who reside in the American continent.

Relationships that, he explained, must be above “political, ideological or doctrinal plots, beyond the narrow and outdated interpretations of the concept of sovereignty and self-determination of the peoples that, most of the time, hide indifference to the violations of the values ​​and human rights “.

He also thanked the outgoing Mexican president for welcoming the Venezuelans who have been forced to emigrate to other countries because of the precarious situation of their nation.

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates that two million Venezuelans have left Venezuela and it is expected that by the end of 2018 that figure will increase to three million people. Other international organizations estimate that four million have fled that South American country.

In Mexico, Venezuelan asylum requests were placed in 4,042 in 2017, according to figures from the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (Comar).

Venamérica, also, sent a letter to AMLO, who assumes the Presidency of Mexico on December 1, 2018, in which he recommends examining the serious crisis that Venezuela is going through to understand the great damage that socialist policies can cause in a country. who sold Chavismo in Latin America.

“As Venezuelans, we have suffered, over the past 20 years, a progressive deterioration of our quality of life, until the greatest humanitarian crisis that the continent has experienced has occurred in our country, forcing an emigration by hunger, morbidity, unemployment , the bankruptcy of productive enterprises, insecurity and the massive violation of human rights, “he explained.

Situation that Venamérica attributes to the “application of an ideological delirium that came to be called Socialism of the XXI Century, whose results begin to suffer the own brother countries of the continent. In Venezuela the institutions have been destroyed, the Constitution violated and disappeared until the monetary sign “.

“It is the case that a national oil industry, example of efficiency and productivity, directed, worked, explored and marketed by Venezuelans of all specialties, today practically disappeared, and what remains of it is in foreign hands, as well as the totality of our mining industry. The lacerating reality we do not want for our people, nor for the Mexican people nor any other in America or the world, “he said.