Mexico's president is defending the participation of a contingent of Russian soldiers in a military parade over the weekend.
Cmd. Luis Cresencio Sandoval, from left, Mexico's President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador and Adm. Rafael Ojeda Durn, Secretary of the Navy, review the troops before the start of the annual Independence Day parade in the capital's main square, the Zocalo, in Mexico City, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. – Mexico’s president on Monday defended the participation of a contingent of Russian soldiers in a military parade over the weekend..
López Obrador acknowledged the issue became “a scandal,” but attributed it to his ongoing spat with the news media, which he believes is against him. “The Chinese were also in the parade, and there wasn't so much outcry,” López Obrador said, noting a Russian contingent had participated in the past, although at times when that country was not actively invading its neighbor.
Some members of López Obrador's Morena party have publicly expressed affection for Russia even after the invasion, and López Obrador has frequently criticized the United States for sending arms to Ukraine.and intends to use it as a booster shot later this year, along with Cuba's Abdala vaccine., as a booster for new variants, because all of them were designed in 2020 to combat variants circulating at the time.
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