The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has accused this Tuesday the Mexican leader, Claudia Sheinbaum, and the Government of Spain of "putting her in danger" and "abandoning her" by not guaranteeing her protection during an institutional trip to Mexico, to the point that, as she has recounted, they had to "cut and disappear".
In an interview on "Cadena Cope", reported by Europa Press, he stated that his security, like that of any regional leader, was not ensured in a country that, he said, is immersed "in drug trafficking" and in which many states "are directly managed by drug traffickers".
"It is profoundly violent and dangerous and the Government has abandoned us," reproached the Madrid leader, who maintains that they have not only "abandoned" her but have "thrown fire" from Spain.
In this regard, she has censured that the central Executive has left an autonomous president "to her fate in a country plunged into violence". "Anything could have happened to us anywhere," said Díaz Ayuso, who assures that the Mexican president, since her arrival, "has spent the whole day insulting and spewing fire" against her in search of "controversies".
For this reason, she indicated that she was forced to cancel the trip so as not to "endanger" her team or herself. As she explained, they had to "fend for themselves" in the face of the possibility of suffering "any security problem".
Denunciation of lack of protection in a country with "hundreds murdered"
The leader of the Madrid Executive wants to report that both the Government of Mexico and the Spanish Government "have endangered" her security and that of her delegation in a country where, since the arrival of Morena, Sheinbaum's party, "there have been hundreds of politicians murdered" and "more than 100,000 disappeared".
Ayuso has defended that a trip of this type by a regional president is something "natural", given Mexico's investment weight in Madrid and the existence of institutional events "of the most normal between administrations". However, she has emphasized the "level of manipulation" that, in her opinion, both the Spanish and Mexican governments exercise.
Considers it "very serious" that the Spanish Executive has also "abandoned" her because "there is no Spanish diplomacy for certain institutions, for certain officials or politicians," and has wondered what would have happened if something similar had happened to the Catalan president, Salvador Illa.
Controversy over the Platino Awards and the alleged boycott
Regarding her final absence from the Platino Awards, which she decided not to attend after accusing Sheinbaum of wanting to "boycott" the gala if she attended and after the Xcaret group denied having received "threats" and alluded to her "unfortunate statements", the Madrid president has assured that Sheinbaum "directly called the complex", something she claims to have "proof of".
"He said that if that lady (Ayuso) enters the premises, not even if she goes to the event, if she enters the premises, I will close it. And this venue has had threats and many problems previously with the Government, well, they had to prohibit my entry and say that, well, it had been because of my statements. I don't know what statements," he recounted. He also insisted that, in his words about Hernán Cortés and the union of Mexico and Spain, he never "offended anyone."
Parallels between the Government of Mexico and that of Spain
"What is worrying now is that the ways of speaking, acting, and moving of Morena and the president of Mexico are identical to what is happening in Spain," stated Díaz Ayuso, who maintains that "the parallelism is enormous" and that this "worries her a lot."
In his opinion, while an "apparent normality" is maintained, an "enormous institutional woodworm" advances "underhandedly". He finds it "truly sad to see how a country like Mexico, which has experienced an enormous institutional collapse", is living through "exactly" the same thing that, he assures, is happening in Spain.
"One would have to ask why so many Mexicans come to live especially in Madrid, what is happening in Mexico but, above all, what it shows you is the level of manipulation by our Government and, of course, by the Government of Mexico," concluded Díaz Ayuso.