The president of the Madrid region, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced the cancellation of the final leg of her official trip to Mexico and that she will not attend the Platino Awards gala. She attributes this decision to the “climate of boycott” fostered by “the far-left Mexican government,” headed by President Claudia Sheinbaum.
“The growing climate of boycott by the far-left Mexican government has forced President Díaz Ayuso to cancel the third part of her trip, which was scheduled to take place in Monterrey, and return to Madrid,” the Madrid regional government stated in a press release.
The government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, from the conservative People’s Party, denounced that Sheinbaum “has attacked” the Madrid president daily since her arrival in Mexico last Sunday and that she “has called for a boycott” of several of her events, even going so far, according to the Community of Madrid, as to “threaten to close the hotel” where the Platino Awards are being held if the Madrid president attends.
“The president of Mexico has expelled Isabel Díaz Ayuso, threatening the organizers of an international film event. An unprecedented gesture against a representative of the Spanish State,” says the Community, which adds that “Mexico’s slide toward totalitarianism and violence is leading the country to serious anti-democratic episodes like the one we are experiencing today.”
The Community, which has not announced the exact date of Díaz Ayuso’s return (it was scheduled for the 12th), also asserts that the Mexican government “has demanded the full names of everyone who meets with the Madrid president.”
Why has Isabel Díaz Ayuso caused controversy in Mexico?
The Madrid president has been at the center of numerous controversies during her trip for leading a tribute to Hernán Cortés, defending the purity of mestizaje (racial mixing), and launching attacks against the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), Sheinbaum’s party.
Furthermore, the trip has been heavily criticized by the Madrid opposition, which claims it has an empty agenda.
For her part, Sheinbaum has criticized the visit, calling it a political alliance between the “international right” and the Mexican right, and has even suggested that it could affect the normalization of bilateral relations between Mexico and Spain.
Source: elfinanciero
