President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will decorate the Cuban ruler Miguel Diaz-Canel with Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest distinction that the Mexican nation gives to foreigners.
“It is the purpose of the government of the United Mexican States to recognize His Excellency Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, president of the Republic of Cuba, for his work in strengthening relations of friendship and cooperation between Mexico and Cuba,” indicated the agreement of the Secretariat. Of Foreign Affairs published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).
The publication reported that the Order of the Aztec Eagle in Collar grade will be delivered to Díaz-Canel this Saturday, February 11 during his visit to Campeche.
The agreement highlights Díaz-Canel's work to strengthen relations of friendship and cooperation between Mexico and Cuba, and promote cooperation on health issues between the two nations with the sending of doctors and nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Also, the Mexican government justified the award for contributions such as “the reception in Cuba of hundreds of medical students to study different specialties, the sale of vaccines and medicines to our country and the subscription of a bilateral health cooperation agreement”.
The official document adds that Díaz-Canel “has actively participated in strengthening cultural ties between Mexico and Cuba.”
In his morning conference this Friday, López Obrador assured that on the Cuban president's next visit to Campeche he will thank him for sending doctors to Mexico and will show him the works of the Mayan Train.
“We are going to have a health meeting because there are Cuban doctors in Campeche and in other parts of the country, already more than 500 general practitioners and specialists, and we are going to thank the people, the sister government of Cuba, for the support they are providing,” he stated. Lopez Obrador.
The sending of hundreds of Cuban doctors to Mexico faces harsh criticism from activists, human rights defenders, politicians and health professionals in both countries.
On the one hand the Cuban health crisis It includes staff shortages in offices, polyclinics and hospitals, which medical associations in Mexico oppose the hiring of Cuban professionals to the detriment of the job options of nationals.
The delivery of the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle to Díaz-Canel is an act of reciprocity for the granting of the José Martí Order to López Obrador, during his trip to Havana last year..
This will be the fourth official meeting between both leaders, who maintain a fluid relationship of mutual support for their government efforts and political projection in the international arena. López Obrador is a firm defender of the Cuban regime and maintains a critical position of the US embargo on the island.
"We will always demand that this blockade be removed, that it be lifted, which is medieval and contrary to what must be sought for a relationship of friendship between the peoples of the entire American continent," said the Mexican president.
Díaz-Canel will visit Campeche and as part of the work agenda is the visit to a section of the Mayan Train, a project promoted by López Obrador with the purpose of developing infrastructure in the country. In the work, Cuba intervenes as ballast exporter, a stone used in construction that is not found in the Yucatan Peninsula.
The Mexican president pointed out that another bilateral meeting will also be held on other issues, such as the US embargo on the Cuban government, and recalled his rejection as "an arrogant act that violates human rights."
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