The Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Marcelo Ebrard responded to accusations made against him by the former Mexican ambassador to the United States, Martha Helen Barcelona cook.

“The former ambassador has devoted herself, since she left office, to slandering me wherever she can, it is an obsessive rancor, her great objective is not the truth”, accused the minister Foreign Affairs.

And it is that recently Bárcena Coqui approved the statements issued by Mike Pompeo — who was Secretary of State under the government of donald trump— on the controversial bilateral migration program “Stay in Mexico”.

Like the US official, the former ambassador assured (in an interview with Leon Krauze For university) that Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard accepted the controversial program and also asked to keep it secret. To the charges, she added that she herself would have been “deceived” because, as she stated, she was not notified of said agreement.

The head of the SRE categorically denied the accusations, assuring that all information regarding the agreements that were reached during Donald Trump’s mandate was communicated, not only to the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but also to the Senate of La Republic.

In this regard, he added that during the said period, there was a strong tension between the two nations, due to the alleged interest of the American administration in “imposing” the “Safe Third Country” agreement. , the Minister of Foreign Affairs explained that within the framework of the negotiations carried out in Washington wanted that Mexico signs this agreement with the threat to impose customs tariffs.

After a long session between Marcelo Ebrard and Donald Trum’s close entourage – which included Mike Pompeo – the imposition of tariffs and the “safe third country” program were avoided, according to Ebrard Casaubón.

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