"Unfortunately it is a belated declaration; it was delayed a bit in his memoirs and only serve to ratify what we knew from the beginning: Yes, they constructed a path to derail the candidacy of Andrés Manuel.”As noted earlier, PRD's relationship with Castro is far from harmonious, for a range of reasons, yet a key one, as PRD Federal Deputy Jesús Zambrano also pointed out, was Castro's betrayal of the Mexican Left in 1988 when he immediately accepted the results of the 1988 elections that brought to power Carlos Salinas, validating what was an obvious fraud.
Others are more concerned with responding to the Mexican Foreign Secretariat's sharp reply to Castro's revelations, which decided the best response would be to go on the attack, dismissing the substance of his comments outright and going on the offensive by attacking the right to a free vote in Cuba.
PRD Senator Arturo Núñez calls the SRE's response "grotesque, ridiculous, and childish," rightly pointing out that SRE refused to deal with the contents of the comments.
PT Federal Deputy Porfiro Muñoz Ledo - a político saltimbanqui if there ever was one - noted that the foreign secretariat's declarations broke with its historic diplomacy to Cuba, not only by conflating Castro with the Cuban government, but also by interfering in Cuban internal affairs, observations that have elements of truth. Yet Muñoz Ledo, seemingly eager to build on the AMLO-Castro connection, amazingly states that the secretariat "cannot walk around with bravado" and claim there are no free elections in Cuba.
Really, Muñoz Ledo? This is the level of analysis to be expected from a man who has held virtually any high office in Mexico apart from the Presidency?
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