Mexico rejects US embargo on Cuba at Ibero-American Summit, Digi Mart USA News (Madrid, Spain): Mexico reiterated on Thursday its “historic position of rejecting the embargo” and other coercive economic measures against Cuba that the United States applies, according to a publisher report from López-Dóriga Digital.
Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco made the statement during the plenary session of the XXX Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, held in Madrid. Velasco also greeted King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain and conveyed greetings from President Claudia Sheinbaum and the Mexican government.
Velasco said Mexico believes in understanding among sovereign nations, international law, democracy, the self-determination of peoples and the peaceful resolution of disputes. He described Ibero-American countries as brother peoples united by centuries of history.
He also said Ibero-America is a cultural, linguistic and natural power, and that much of what the region is owes to Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples. According to the report, Velasco said Mexico’s goal of economic growth is well-being, and that inequality can be reduced through state decisions that place people at the center.
Velasco added that the value of an economy lies in the well-being it distributes, stating that there will be no shared prosperity while part of the population is left behind. The article notes that the report was not independently verified.
