López Obrador awards Díaz-Canel with the Order of the Aztec Eagle

The Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) this Friday decorated the Cuban ruler Miguel Diaz-Canel with the Order of the Aztec Eagle in a ceremony held at the Mayan archaeological site of Edzná, located in the state of Campeche.

“The Decoration of the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, in the degree of Collar, was received today by the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, from the hands of his counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador in a gesture of brotherhood between both leaders and nations. Latin Americans,” indicated the Cuban Foreign Ministry in a tweet.

The distinction, at the level of Collar, is the highest that the Mexican nation gives to foreigners and highlights, according to the Mexican government, Díaz-Canel's work to strengthen relations of friendship and cooperation between both countries, and promote cooperation on health issues by sending doctors and nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“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 Ministry of Foreign Affairs. .

In addition, 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 signing of a bilateral cooperation agreement in health matters." .

“A very high honor to receive the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, a decoration that symbolizes the origin, identity and strength of this endearing nation. I receive it with humility and infinite gratitude, aware that the truly deserving is the heroic Cuban people,” expressed the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba on his networks.

Despite the harsh criticism received from the Mexican opposition, human rights defenders, politicians and health professionals in both countries, AMLO defends the public hiring of hundreds of Cuban doctors, a drain on public health that only deepens the health crisis on the island.

López Obrador maintains a critical position of the US embargo on Cuba and does everything possible to help the Cuban regime, of which he is a staunch defender. Since the purchase of Cuban vaccines until the import of Cuban ballast for the Mayan Train, the Mexican president is prone to demands for “cooperation” from Havana, which, implicitly, turned to him to provide a channel for the exodus of hundreds of thousands of illegal Cuban migrants who crossed Mexico to reach the United States.

"We are always going to demand that this blockade be removed, that it 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 before the fourth official meeting with the Cuban ruler.

Diaz-Canel, that "extraordinary president" who imposed the Order José Martí on López Obrador in the Cuban capital, he did not make a parenthesis in the celebrations during the visit of the Mexican president, which coincided with the Saratoga Hotel explosion, which cost the lives of more than 40 Cubans.

In the name of "the Cuban men and women who share what they have, not what they have left over, because they have nothing left over, except love for humanity and willingness to serve the poor of the earth," Díaz-Canel thanked the Mexican leader. .

The Order of the Aztec Eagle is the highest distinction granted to foreigners in Mexico for prominent services provided to the Mexican Nation or to humanity and as reciprocity to other distinctions granted abroad to Mexican public servants.

The protocol of the event included a photograph of both delegations in front of the majestic ruin of the Mayan sanctuary known as the Five-Story Building. Next to Dr. Díaz-Canel, his wife and supposed non-first lady, Dr. Lisa Cuesta, admired in his hands the gold-bearing details of the Necklace that AMLO -whose "nobility of soul seduces"- imposed on "dictator of his heart".