The busybody

By: Luis Gonzales Posada - 05/09/2025

The title of this column refers to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has once again publicly defended former President Pedro Castillo, arguing that he is "unjustly imprisoned, the victim of political persecution." She announced that she will turn to the UN "to guarantee respect for human rights and justice."

By making this brazen statement, the Mexican president flagrantly violates the principle of non-intervention, enshrined in Article 19 of the OAS Charter, which establishes that "no State or group of States has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, for whatever reason, in the internal or external affairs of any other."

Ms. Sheinbaum has also become disloyal to her country by favoring Cuba over her own country, which has 39% of its population living in poverty and 7% in extreme poverty, a percentage that encompasses 40 million people.

Despite these meager figures, the Mexican president, instead of using all state resources to support disadvantaged compatriots, diverts part of the public funds to subsidize Cuba.

From May to July 2025 alone, customs authorities recorded the departure of 39 hydrocarbon shipments to the island, totaling $850 million, a figure close to the $1 billion shipped from July 2023 to September 2024.

These farms began during the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, AMLO, who exported 100,000 barrels of diesel and tons of food to the island.

It wasn't neutral humanitarian aid, but rather a political lifeline for the regime; and since then, the shipments have become institutionalized, analysts warn.

To strengthen this connection, in May 2022, Cuban President and First Secretary of the Communist Party, Miguel Diaz-Canel, made an official visit to Mexico. In the capital city, he was awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle in the "Collar Degree," the highest distinction awarded to a foreign figure. AMLO described him as a "humanist" leader, overlooking the fierce repression he launched in 2021 against thousands of peaceful citizens protesting food and medicine shortages, power outages, and lack of freedoms. Eight hundred participants were imprisoned for "sedition, vandalism, theft, and public disorder," and 172 of them received sentences ranging from four to 30 years in prison.

Mexico, on the other hand, is trapped in a cycle of violence. During AMLO's administration (2018-2024), there were 196,000 murders, higher than his predecessors, former presidents Peña Nieto and Felipe Calderón, who recorded 102,000 and 80,000 deaths, respectively.

Another serious problem for Mexico is that between 12 and 14 million people are illegal immigrants in the United States, many of whom are hidden, clandestine, fearing detention and deportation not only because they are undocumented but also because they are linked to drug trafficking.

A New York Times report indicates that, according to the DEA and the Department of Justice, fentanyl is produced almost entirely in Mexico, and another media outlet warns that part of that country's territory is controlled by the Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación cartels, responsible for hundreds of barbaric murders.

But none of these issues seem to matter to the Mexican government, which is focused on slandering Peru and defending Pedro Castillo, the failed coup leader.

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