"I'M NOT GOING TO SIT DOWN": AMBASSADOR OF MEXICO LEADS IN A SHARP SESSION AT THE OAS
"I'm not going to sit down": Mexican ambassador stars in embarrassing session at the OAS. SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica, June 2 (EL UNIVERSAL).- Mexico suffered a severe diplomatic setback at dawn in a debate at the Organization of American States (OAS), in a lawsuit in which the Mexican ambassador to that forum, Luz Elena Baños, staged a tantrum to oppose the increase in the budget ceiling of the hemispheric institution.
The events in the plenary session of the organization in Washington caused a splitting of a regional leftist bloc formed by Mexico, Bolivia and Argentina, with the external siege of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, which are not part of the OAS, and left the Mexican delegation in what diplomatic sources described with one term: "embarrassment."
"Mexico suffered one of the most shameful moments in the history of its diplomacy. It was the lowest moment in the history of the OAS by an ambassador," described a diplomatic source who told details of the incident to EL UNIVERSAL from Washington under the request for anonymity.
"It was a shame: Mexico exhibited itself inelegantly in the desire of the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to destroy the OAS and its secretary general, Luis Almagro. But it was like a boomerang, which hit the representation in the mouth Mexican diplomat," he added.








