Martha Bárcena refuted Marcelo Ebrard for the ‘Remain in Mexico’ treaty: ‘Lies are your only recourse’

The statements of Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State in Donald Trump’s government, regarding the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard and the treaty stay in mexico they again sparked controversy; this after February 9th Martha Barcenaformer Mexican ambassador to the United States, confirmed that the Secretary of Foreign Relations (SRE) had kept the controversial agreement secret.

However, during The morning on February 14, Ebrard Casaubón denied the diplomat’s remarks, accusing her of being guided by “an obsessive grudgeto “slander him on all sides.” Furthermore, he accused Bárcena of having agreed to impose the “safe third country” agreement, despite the instruction to “not accept any of this”.

A few minutes after this statement, the former Mexican ambassador to Turkey denied the Minister of Foreign Affairs and said that it was she who stopped the negotiation of the agreement at the State Department. This, after denying that what was expressed in an interview with León Krauze was motivated by grudges.

“No slander, no resentment, no ingratitude. More lies about the safe third country agreement. Marcelo Ebrard is lying. You know I stopped negotiating the deal at the State Department.”

The plan stay in mexicopromoted under the Trump administration, proposed that asylum seekers who arrive in the United States through its southern border could be sent back to Mexico pending resolution of their cases in US courts.

In this sense, Bárcena confessed to Krauze, in an interview for universitythat the current candidate for President of the Republic “misled” her by not informing her that he had agreed to the implementation of the treaty with Pompeo and the United States Secretary of Homeland Security of the time, Kirstjen Nielsen.

However, Marcelo Ebrard clarified from the National Palace that not only would the diplomat have disobeyed the instruction not to accept the imposition of the treaty, but would also have conditioned him to implement it “as long as it was as in Turkey— that is, Mexico getting paid to agree to the deal. Therefore, the Chancellor disapproved of it for “his ingratitude with the government of Mexico.

“I never trusted her with that. And it’s good that I didn’t because you see what you’re saying right now. And the ingratitude to the government that appointed her ambassador to Washington, which is the largest in Mexico”.