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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday that he had not received any invitation to the inauguration of the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, when asked if he would go to Washington for the January 20 event, reports Reuters.
“I have no invitation and I decided not to leave the country,” he said at a regular government press conference, according to agerpres.ro.
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López Obrador has made only one trip abroad in two years since he took office, when he visited acting President Donald Trump in July and praised his US counterpart for treating Mexico “with kindness and respect.”
Since Trump insulted Mexican migrants by calling them rapists and drug traffickers, promised to build a wall on the southern border of the United States and threatened to impose tariffs on all Mexican products, López Obrador’s words were received. with criticism.
Critics have accused the Mexican president of helping Trump’s re-election campaign. But López Obrador said Thursday that he went to the United States because it was “very important” to participate in the launch of a new trade agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada.
López Obrador was one of the last world leaders to congratulate Biden on his victory and said he wants to wait for the legal challenges of the US elections to be resolved.
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