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After knowing the result of the presidential election in the US that determined the victory of Democrat Joe Biden, several Latin American presidents greeted the new head of the White House. Thus, the messages of Alberto Fernández, Iván Duque, Luis Lacalle Pou, Nicolás Maduro and the Chilean Sebastián Piñera were known.
However, there were two relevant names that have not joined so far. The Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said that for the moment he will not congratulate a winner of the elections. “Regarding the elections in the United States, we are going to wait for all the legal issues to be resolved”he noted at a press conference.
“It is a matter of political prudence”added.
“We do not want to be reckless, we do not want to act lightly and we want to be respectful of the self-determination of the peoples…We suffered a lot from the charges, from when the presidency was stolen from us one of the times, and the votes had not yet been counted and some foreign governments were already recognizing those who declared themselves winners, that is what happened in 2006 ” , detailed the president of Mexico.
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With the “loaded”, López Obrador refers to his electoral defeats in 2006 and 2012, after which he denounced electoral fraud against him, just as President Donald Trump does now.
For his part, one of the leaders close to Trump in Latin America, the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has so far not greeted Biden or made comments regarding the elections. On his Twitter account, so far he has only commented on some local matters
Those who did react were other ex-presidents such as Dilma Rousseff and Luiz Inacio “Lula” Da Silva. The latter wrote a message on his Twitter account. “The world breathes relief with the victory of Biden. At this important moment in which the American people spoke out against Trumpism and all that it represents, of rejection of human values, hatred, abandonment of life and attacks against our dear Latin America ”.
On your side, Dilma Rousseff, who was the first president of Brazil, highlighted in her Twitter account the election of the Vice President Kamala Harris as the first African-American to hold the position and also noted that “Biden’s victory is a victory for the American people and represents an encouragement for those, in the world, who fight against the extreme right, intolerance and hatred.”
