Isabel Díaz Ayuso had to change hotels in Cancún and suspend part of her official trip to Mexico due to pressure from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
The governor of Quintana Roo, following Sheinbaum’s orders, warned that the hotel hosting the Platino Awards would be closed if Ayuso attended the event.
The hostile climate against Ayuso in Mexico intensified after her statements defending the Spanish legacy and the figure of Hernán Cortés.
Ayuso returns to Spain this Sunday after receiving boycott messages and being unable to cancel her flight to Cancún. Upon arrival, she was relocated to another hotel.
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, will return to Spain this Sunday, with a stopover in Dallas, after suspending the final part of her official trip to Mexico.
The reason is the hostile climate unleashed against her by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
According to sources close to the Madrid regional president, the Mexican leader threatened the organizers of the Platino film awards with closing the Cancún hotel complex where the ceremony was to be held if Ayuso attended.
The Madrid president received the message while already en route to Cancún.
According to sources close to the Community of Madrid, the governor of the state of Quintana Roo, María Elena Hermelinda, reported that she had orders from the Mexican president that “if Ayuso participated in the awards ceremony, it would be canceled.”
Hermelinda is a member of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, the same party to which Sheinbaum belongs.
The governor, the sources added, suggested that they could “close the hotel.” The order was clear: the Madrid president “wouldn’t even be allowed to set foot in it.”
In light of this situation, Ayuso’s team justifies the statement from the Xcarlet hotel group, which categorically denied having received any threats or instructions from Sheinbaum’s administration, citing the potential coercion they may have received.
The organizers informed Ayuso, after she had already boarded the plane, that she could not stay at the hotel and that they would find her other accommodations.
When she heard the message, the president was already on the plane and, therefore, could not cancel the flight to Cancún.
Upon arrival, she and her team had already been relocated to a different hotel, according to information obtained by El Español.
Sources add that if the team had received the message just half an hour earlier, they wouldn’t have even traveled to Cancún.
However, when they learned of the ban, Ayuso was already on board and could not disembark.
This trip had been scheduled since January 29th.
From the outset, she has been the target of a campaign of accusations and hostile statements from Sheinbaum.
The reason for her criticism is Ayuso’s defense of the Spanish legacy and the figure of Hernán Cortés.
Sources close to the Madrid president claim that Sheinbaum had been inciting her supporters to boycott her events and attacking her for several days.
It all began after a speech in Mexico City, where she highlighted “message” as a “message of hope and joy” and a symbol of unity between the Spanish and Mexican peoples.
From then on, Sheinbaum accused her of being a “worshipper” of Cortés and of having “little knowledge” of this “invader who ordered massacres and branded children as slaves.”
From Aguascalientes to Cancún
Everything changed after an event in Aguascalientes.
While Ayuso was receiving an award, Martha Márquez, a councilwoman from the Morena party, stormed the stage with a banner reading “We have no water,” preventing Ayuso from beginning her speech.
From that moment on, hostility from the entire Morena party toward Ayuso began to escalate, culminating in the closure of the awards complex.
As a backdrop, Mexico is experiencing a severe security crisis that must be taken into consideration before any action is taken in the country.
Mexico has a high rate of organized crime and is the third most dangerous country in the world. Drug cartels and organized crime groups pose a risk due to their extortion tactics and use of weapons of war.
For now, neither the organizers of the Platino Awards nor the Audiovisual Producers’ Rights Management Entity (EGEDA) plan to comment on the matter, according to El Español.
As such, this “climate of boycott” has forced Ayuso to cancel her trip and return to Spain this Sunday via Dallas, a journey that will last 20 hours.
Source: elespanol
