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Cuba's Miguel Diaz-Canel, center, accompanies Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, during Independence Day celebrations successful the Zocalo successful Mexico City, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

MEXICO CITY – The large item of Mexico’s Independence Day Thursday was the sojourn by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador welcomed the Cuban person connected the reviewing level for Mexico’s yearly Sept. 16 subject parade.

López Obrador called connected the United States to extremity the economical blockade of Cuba. The Mexican person besides called connected Cuban-Americans to “leave speech partisan oregon electoral interests” and question reconciliation.

“Hopefully President (Joe) Biden has capable governmental sensitivity to enactment with greatness and enactment an extremity to the governmental attacks connected Cuba," López Obrador said. “He should besides assistance the Cuban-American assemblage enactment speech governmental oregon electoral interests, they person to permission down resentment and recognize the caller circumstances and question reconciliation.”

The pandemic, the effects of the U.S. sanctions and Cuba's economical mismanagement person suffocated Cuba’s economy. Thousands of Cubans took portion successful protests connected July 11 and 12, angered by shortages of nutrient and medicine and by powerfulness outages, arsenic good arsenic immoderate demanding much governmental freedom.

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López Obrador said “It looks atrocious that the U.S. authorities is utilizing the blockade to forestall the wellbeing of the Cuban people, with the extremity of obliging radical done necessity to face their ain government.”

“If this perverse strategy is successful,” López Obrador said, “it would go a pyrrhic victory, vile and perverse.”

Mexico is acceptable to big a acme of leaders Friday of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, known by its initials successful Spanish arsenic CELAC. Some analysts accidental Mexico whitethorn question to usage the accidental to weaken oregon permission the Organization of American States, oregon OAS.

Mexican officials person criticized the OAS arsenic excessively U.S.-oriented and excessively interventionist, and person said a caller assemblage is needed to correspond the region's countries. Cuba is portion of the CELAC, but does not beryllium to the OAS.

After fundamentally agreeing with the United States to assistance forestall migrants from reaching the U.S. border, and person those sent back, López Obrador needs immoderate mode to awesome that Mexico has not abandoned its traditionally autarkic overseas policy.

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Mexico has already sent shipments of assistance to Cuba.

Former Mexican President Felipe Calderón wrote successful his Twitter relationship that “it is unacceptable to springiness specified a salient spot astatine the country's bicentennial independency solemnisation to a dictator who has imprisoned dozens of Cubans.”

2021 marks 200 years since Mexico's ceremonial 1821 declaration of independency from Spain.

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