The political and diplomatic war unleashed around Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s institutional trip to Mexico has entered uncharted territory after the Community of Madrid issued a very harsh official statement directly accusing Claudia Sheinbaum’s government of trying to sabotage the presence of the Madrid president at the Platino awards and of having caused, through their pressures, the early cancellation of part of the trip’s agenda. A decision that became known just hours after the Madrid opposition accused her of having taken a “paid vacation” in Riviera Maya, after clearing her official agenda for 48 hours to travel to the Mexican tourist area.
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The text, written in terms of extraordinary political gravity, has raised the clash between the two leaders to a level rarely seen between a Spanish regional administration and a foreign government. The regional government has even stated that the Mexican president “has expelled” Ayuso from the country and has denounced an alleged “totalitarian and violent drift” of Mexico.
According to the version disseminated by Puerta del Sol, the Mexican government allegedly threatened the organizers of the Platino awards with closing the Cancun hotel complex where the gala was held if Ayuso attended the event or set foot on the premises “at any time.” The Community of Madrid also stated that Mexican authorities demanded to know the “full names” of all the people who were going to meet with the Madrid leader during her stay.
Faced with this situation, always according to the regional government’s version, Ayuso would have decided not to attend the gala “so as not to harm Mexican businessmen or the participants” of the Ibero-American film event, co-sponsored by the Community and the Madrid City Council. The regional government also announced the suspension of the third part of the trip, scheduled in Monterrey, and the early return of the president to Spain.
La Izquierda Carga Contra El Sexto Viaje De Ayuso A EE.UU
A tour full of controversies
Friday’s statement is the latest chapter of a tour that from the start has been marked by political confrontation with the Mexican government. In recent days, Sheinbaum had publicly questioned several of Ayuso’s statements about the Spanish conquest and the figure of Hernán Cortés, accusing her of “historical ignorance” and fueling a dialectical exchange that grew as the visit progressed and caused Ayuso to be received at her subsequent events with protests.
The Madrid opposition, for its part, has questioned the truthfulness of the narrative constructed by the regional government since the arrival of the regional president in Mexican lands, asserting that she has turned the trip into an episode of permanent ideological confrontation using foreign policy as an extension of her national strategy against Pedro Sánchez. All this, they recall, in the same week in which her chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, had to appear in court as a suspect for alleged disclosure of secrets.
