The Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez This Wednesday he thanked his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador his admiration for Fidel Castro and Ernesto “I” Guevara.
"Thank you, dear Andrés Manuel, because you never forget in your 'Mañaneras' the words that do justice to Our America, its people and its heroes. Fidel forever," Díaz-Canel wrote on his Twitter account.
Although the Cuban leader says that the Mexican's words were spoken in his usual appearance known as "Mañanera", it is a fragment of a meeting held this Tuesday with federal legislators, from the National Palace of Mexico.
"I am an idealist. So, I do admire men of power, those who exercise power. This is the case of Fidel and 'Che'. If you say one to the young people, they say: 'Che'. Yes, out of idealism, but Fidel was the one who led, whether we agree or not, that independence process. Because it is an example, it is one of the few countries in the world where they have not allowed foreign intervention, you understand what I mean, right?" López Obrador said to those attending the meeting.
However, Díaz-Canel, who apparently did not hear the Mexican's full intervention, had to ignore the parliaments where the ruler of the Aztec nation repudiates authoritarianism and "coercive measures."
"I do not believe in coercive measures, in authoritarianismI'm not a Stalinist. If it comes to deciding which leftist leader in Russia, Trotsky draws my attention more, not Stalin; and I have a lot of respect for Lenin, but I am an idealist," he said in his speech where he assured that his country was moving towards an "authentic Welfare State", after the right to a pension for the elderly was elevated to constitutional rank. .
López Obrador has previously declared himself a fervent admirer of the dictator Fidel Castro. Last July, He assured that he was a giant like the South African leader Nelson Mandela, but does not have the same recognition by conservatives around the world.
The comparison with Mandela even goes back to the time before the Mexican assumed the presidency in 2018.
On the occasion of Castro's death in 2016, AMLO said that "for us (those on the left) Commander Fidel Castro is a social fighter and politician of great dimensions, because he knew how to lead his people and achieve authentic, true independence" and stressed that, "despite all the adversities", Fidel maintained Cuba "as a free, independent and sovereign nation", and he was "on par with Nelson Mandela."
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