In the most recent chapter in Mexico’s love-fest with Cuba, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel will be granted Mexico’s greatest medal when he goes to the southern Mexico city of Campeche on Saturday
MEXICO CITY — In the most recent chapter in Mexico’s love-fest with Cuba, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel will be granted Mexico’s greatest medal when he goes to the southern Mexico city of Campeche on Saturday.
The Friday edition of the Mexican federal government’s main gazette said Díaz-Canel will be granted the “Order of the Aztec Eagle,” most likely with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador positioning it around his neck throughout the Cuban leader’s see.
The award — the nation’s greatest honor for immigrants and chose primarily by the president — has actually formerly been provided to leaders varying from Fidel Castro to the Shah of Iran.
The award alert said the Cuban leader “has promoted cooperation between the two nations on health issues.”
López Obrador applauded Cuba on Friday for sending out medical professionals to Mexico, a few of whom serve in hazardous or remote locations. But those medical professionals, and the incomes they are paid, have actually raised debate in Mexico. Some said the tasks must go to Mexican medical professionals, while other thought that much of their incomes would go to the Cuban federal government.
Mexico purchased 9 million dosages of the Cuban-made Abdala vaccine in September 2022, with the dosages getting to year’s end, when Mexico’s vaccination efforts had actually already trailed off.
López Obrador’s administration is utilizing the Cuban vaccine as a booster, although it was developed for coronavirus versions flowing in 2020 or 2021, not existing versions. Few Mexicans have actually appeared to get the Cuban booster shots.
In the rush to build his family pet task, a traveler train that will run in a rough loop around the Yucatan peninsula, López Obrador has actually said he will import considerable amounts of crushed stone ballast from Cuba at excellent cost.
The ballast is required to support the ties of the train tracks. Local stone in the Yucatan is not the ideal kind, and much has actually been delivered to Yucatan ports from Mexico’s own Gulf coast.
López Obrador has actually long been a fan of Cuba, and often plays Cuban “nueva trova” music at his everyday news rundowns.
The president likewise been slammed for his links to other leftist routines. His administration drew grievances for designating a previous Venezuelan authorities to an essential position in the Public Education Department at a time when Mexico is revamping mentor approaches and books.
Despite his infatuation with leftist routines abroad, the Mexican president has actually mostly been conservative on social and financial problems at home.
He reject critics who point out human rights abuses by the Cuban and Venezuelan routines.
“It is conservative political posturing,” López Obrador said previously this month. “It is like, ‘We are going to turn into Venezuela, we are going to turn into Cuba.’”
