The presidents of Chili, Gabriel Boric; of ColombiaGustavo Petro, and EcuadorGuillermo Lasso, will attend the summit of the Pacific Alliance that Mexico will host at the end of November, the Mexican president reported this Friday, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Yes, President Boric is coming, President Petro is coming, President Lasso from Ecuador is coming,” he said in his morning press conference.
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The Mexican president confirmed that the trade bloc meeting will take place in Oaxaca, a state in southern Mexico, on November 25.
We are going to carry out in Oaxaca the meeting of presidents of the (Alliance) of the Pacific and we are now the ones who preside, I am president of this group”, he mentioned.
AMLO regrets departure from Peru
Although the Pacific Alliance is made up of Mexico, Peru, Chile and Colombia, the Mexican president lamented the political crisis that prevents the departure of the Peruvian presidentPedro Castillo.
We want Pedro Castillo (to come) because I have to hand over the presidency to him, it belongs to Peru, so last time the Congress of Peru did not give him permission to leave, I think it would be, with all due respect to his policies, a mistake the fact that they did not allow him to leave,” he said.
The Mexican ruler took the opportunity to wish “that there be reconciliation and that democracy be accepted in Peru,” where “President Pedro Castillo won the democratic elections, but they won’t let him, he hasn’t been here long and they have been harassing him.”
The Pacific Alliance, formally established 10 years ago, It boasts of being “the eighth economic power and the eighth export power worldwide”representing 41% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Latin America and attracting 38% of direct foreign investment.
López Obrador also reiterated the presence of the president of Ecuador and the president of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, whose attendance was confirmed on Thursday during the meeting of foreign, trade and economy ministers of the Pacific Alliance in the Mexican capital.
The president of Mexico expressed his intention to integrate both countries into the trade bloc, although last month he indicated that he maintains disagreements with Ecuador on issues such as tuna, shrimp and bananas to close the treaty that would allow him to enter the bloc.
I was talking about President Lasso of Ecuador, he is not yet a member, we want him to join the Pacific Alliance,” he said now.
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