Sheinbaum comments on the US accusation against Raúl Castro

Mexico.- The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, criticized this Friday the accusation against the former president of Cuba, Raúl Castro, that the US Justice issued this week. “What’s the point of accusing a person at this moment for something that happened 30 years ago?”, the president pointed out when questioned about the case during her usual press conference, in which she reiterated the importance of self-determination of peoples. On Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department charged Castro and five other people for allegedly causing the deaths of four people, including three U.S. citizens, in the context of the downing of two aircraft in 1996. Since then, Havana has affirmed that the planes illegally entered its airspace and that it acted in accordance with the law. After the charges were formalized, the President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, warned that “this is a political action, without any legal basis, which only seeks to add to the file they are fabricating to justify the folly of a military aggression against Cuba“.

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Sheinbaum considered that, in addition to Cuba, another case that demonstrates that historically there has been “an interventionist vision” on the part of the US is that of the former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, whom, since he was a candidate, they tried to link him to drug trafficking for being an indigenous leader in an area of coca leaf production. “Evo Morales’ government has been the best government in Bolivia’s history: it increased the Gross Domestic Product, income, and the standard of living of the people, decreased inequality, and strengthened the sovereignty of its natural resources,” he said, recalling that Mexico will never agree with the view that other countries influence the policies of sovereign countries.