In turn, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, during a telephone conversation, Tuesday, with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, expressed his “strong support” for Moscow, whose forces continue to invade Ukraine, according to a statement from the Kremlin and a tweet by Maduro.
“We will not take any retaliatory measure of an economic nature, because we must maintain good relations with all the governments of the world, and we want to be able to talk with the conflicting parties,” the Mexican president said in his daily press conference.
“I do not agree with a ban on media outlets affiliated with Russia or any country,” he added.
Top websites from YouTube and Facebook have moved to TikTok and Microsoft to limit access to Russian state-linked news outlets, which face accusations of disinformation about Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
On Monday, Lopez Obrador ruled out closing Mexican airspace to Russian airlines.
Since November, the Russian company Aeroflot has been operating a direct flight between Moscow and Cancun, the main Mexican tourist destination.
Putin and Maduro connection
“Maduro expressed strong support for Russia’s major actions, denounced the destabilizing activity of the United States and NATO, and stressed the importance of combating the campaign of lies and disinformation launched by Western countries,” the Kremlin statement said.
He added that Putin “shared his vision of the situation in relation to Ukraine and emphasized that the goals of the special military operation are the protection of the civilian population in Donbass, Kyiv’s recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics and Russian sovereignty over Crimea, the disarmament of the Ukrainian state, the uprooting of its Nazism and ensuring its neutral and non-nuclear status.”
For his part, Maduro wrote in a tweet: “I had a phone conversation with President Vladimir Putin and confirmed Venezuela’s condemnation of the destabilizing actions of NATO, and I reiterated the consistent position in favor of understanding and dialogue as a means of preserving peace.”
Maduro had expressed before the war his support for Russia, saying that “Venezuela is with Putin, and it is with Russia. It is with the brave and just causes of the world.”