Mexico City.– The United States’ decision to cancel the visa of Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, son of former Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is “a political matter” with which Donald Trump’s government seeks to discredit the former president, his brother, José Ramiro López Obrador, declared this Saturday.
José Ramiro, who serves as the Secretary of Government of the state of Tabasco (southwestern Mexico), told local media that through this action, and without referring to the name of his brother, Andrés Manuel (2018-2024), they are attempting to discredit him.
“It’s not the boy (López Beltrán) they really want, but the older one (López Obrador). It’s just that the neighbors (U.S.) are thinking about it. I think it’s a political matter, it has nothing to do with any other issue,” stated the 70-year-old official.
“It is the discrediting (with which) they (the U.S.) believe they manage to cause harm, discrediting the citizens who are fighting so that in this country, the people of Mexico fare better,” he added.
He questioned the media on whether they had revoked the visa of any politician from the governments that preceded his brother’s in the past.
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“When did you ever see them revoke a visa from one of the politicians who were supporting neoliberalism? They didn’t do that, because they were submissive governments that followed, to the letter, what they were ordered to do from the United States; here, there is sovereignty, there is autonomy.”
He said that “if they want a very good relationship (U.S.), it must take place within the frameworks that the president (Claudia Sheinbaum) has stated: through cooperation and not subordination,” noted José Ramiro López Obrador, who asserted that he has not seen his nephew or his brother recently.
Last Thursday, through a letter addressed to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, Andrés Manuel López Beltrán reported that the government of that country revoked his visa to enter its territory.
In a letter, dated August 13 in Teapa, Tabasco, López Beltrán asserted that the decision was made by the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and by Undersecretary Christopher Landau.
On Friday, President Sheinbaum accused the United States government of engaging in a form of political “interference” following the cancellation of López Beltrán’s visa, a decision she attributed to “essentially” political motives.
